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This inquiry activity should be used before students learn about velocity and distance versus time graphs. Students will discover how the slope of a d...
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Although this lab is not an inquiry activity, it is very important in learning about acceleration and mass. It is a deeply held misconception among st...
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This lab is an inquiry activity to be used before discussing inertia. Out of necessity to explain the observation, a short discussion of inertia is in...
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This lab introduces students to the idea of recoil and how conservation of momentum can be used to explain it. Many people use action/reaction to expl...
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This inquiry activity should be performed after students have learned about momentum, but before they learn about conservation of momentum. Students w...
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This inquiry activity is performed by students after they learn about momentum and energy, but before they discuss conservation of momentum or energy....
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This inquiry activity should be completed before discussing with students that a projectile’s motion in the vertical direction is independent of its...
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This inquiry activity should be done before students have studied the operation of a first-class lever. The activity could be used when discussing sim...
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This is an inquiry activity in which students discover what a radian is. Some students may already know how many degrees are in a radian or how many r...
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This lab is an inquiry activity in that students will likely not know which direction the marble will travel and will discover it with some guidance. ...
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This lab is purely a thought experiment. Although students are given an introduction to angular speed and tangential speed, they will discover the rel...
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This inquiry activity should be performed before students have learned about acceleration but after they have learned about speed. Students should hav...
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This inquiry activity is intended to be an introduction to moment of inertia beyond just mathematical calculations. It provides some background in mom...
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Although not inquiry, this activity is important for students to understand what an ellipse is and what a focus is, and to break misconceptions about ...
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This lab is an inquiry activity in that students do not know the answer and have probably never experienced this phenomenon. Most students have seen t...