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This activity is one for which you can find a lot of different explanations on the internet, but most of them are wrong. Some say that the soap is eje...
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This activity will help students see that a low center of mass helps objects balance. This is important engineering in car and motorcycle racing and r...
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This activity is inquiry because students have likely never used this method for determining center of mass. The activity is also useful when building...
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This lab is an inquiry activity if it is done before the discussion of how center of mass and balance are related. However, students should have an id...
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This inquiry activity should be completed before students have learned about spring constants. It should be pointed out to students that if a rubber b...
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Although this would not be considered a standard lab, it does help students with projects and other labs that involve the combinations of springs or r...
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This activity is inquiry because students should not yet know the equation for centripetal force. Although they will not exactly derive the equation f...
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This lab is not an inquiry activity but will help students understand the meaning of average velocity. Students do not easily understand from a textbo...
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This activity is inquiry because students have not yet been exposed to the idea of gravitational potential energy being converted into kinetic energy....
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Teachers may want to show students a completed soda can vehicle because the written instructions can be difficult to follow for some students. These c...
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In this lab, students will use a little background information about Bernoulli’s principle to figure out how the spinning of a moving ball affects i...
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In this lab, students will see that for any object that sinks, the object displaces more water when it is floating than when it is submerged. This lab...
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This activity is inquiry in that the students do not know the answer to the question before they begin. Students will use the calibrated rubber band t...
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This activity is inquiry in that students do not know the answer before they begin. If you were to poll the class before doing this activity, you woul...
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In learning how this apparatus works, students will improve their understanding of action/reaction. This knowledge will also help students understand ...