P201 Menu

Below are listed buttons to access exploratories for each of the topical areas in the course. You will perform some of these during the class. Others may be assigned as home or school activities. For these you will be asked to discuss with the class on the results obtained by yourself or your students. You are also encouraged to share with the class any exploratories you do that are not listed here. Sharing with others is an important part of this course.

HABITS OF THE MIND

Ball_Bounce

Black_Box

Chaotic Crystals

Learning Styles

Logic Puzzle

Petals on a Rose

Tesselations

Test of Logic Thinking

Whirlygigs

MATTER, SPACE, TIME (Chapters 1, 2)

Creation of Universe

Curved Space

Expanding Universe

Polymer Fun

Quark Game

MOTION, KINEMATICS (Chapter 3)

Describing Motion

Driving Physics

Kinematics Kit

Making Distance-Time Graphs

Motion Along The Path

Walk This Way Charades

FORCES, DYNAMICS (Chapter 4, 5)

Classifying Forces

How Large is a Pull

Matchbox "Magic"

Normal Forces

ENERGY (Chapter 6, 7)

Canister Entropy

Exercising Is Work

Giant Slide

How Fast Can You Work?

How Hot Are Your Hot Wheels?

A Potpourri of Energy

Stretch And Relax

Super Bounce With Super Balls

This Is Work

ELECTRICITY and MAGNETISM (Chapter 8, 9)

Electrostatics

Magic Tape

Cash or "Charge"

Electrostatic Induction

Demos

Electric Forces and Fields

2x4 Electroscope

Gravitational and Electric Potential Energy

Work, Potential Energy, Potential

Getting Wired

Circuits and Terms

Power

Properties of Magnets

Oersted's Discovery

It Can't Work

Waves (Chapter 8, 9)

Mirror Images

Tuning Forks

Mechanical Snake

Transverse VS Longitudinal

Wave Characteristics

Images, Images, Images

Student Marching Column