Moving pictures: teach speed, acceleration, and scale with photograph sequences
Picture sequences provide engaging opportunities for students to explore the concepts of speed and acceleration using supplied digital images or their own smartphones.
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Picture sequences provide engaging opportunities for students to explore the concepts of speed and acceleration using supplied digital images or their own smartphones.
Still standing: have you ever wondered how buildings stand? Or why they sometimes fall? Let’s explore this through bridges, from construction to collapse.
All teachers have at least one favourite experiment that they are eager to share. Read on to learn more about monthly experiment sharing sessions and discover some low-cost physics experiments to try out in your own classroom.
Sketch graphs from ‘story’ videos of everyday events to help students understand the basic features of graphs and how to interpret them.
What would the world look like if we could see infrared light? With some simple modifications, you can turn a cheap webcam into an infrared camera and find out!
Build your own virtual particle accelerator with the aid of the acceleratAR app and gain a hands-on, immersive understanding of how these machines work.
Not just melting ice: a simple experiment demonstrates how thermal expansion contributes to rising sea levels as one of the consequences of climate change.
Your mission: to land an intrepid egg-naut safely on the surface of the Moon and learn about classical mechanics along the way.
Roll up, roll up! We bring you some more fantastic feats to challenge and entertain – and to showcase some physics, too.
Can you stop the tray from tipping? Learn about the law of the lever to beat your opponent in this simple game.
Moving pictures: teach speed, acceleration, and scale with photograph sequences
Building bridges: how do structures stay upright?
My favourite experiments – connecting teachers and ideas
Graphing stories
Infrared webcam hack – using infrared light to observe the world in a new way
Build your own virtual accelerator
An ocean in the school lab: rising sea levels
Landing on the Moon – planning and designing a lunar lander
Further fantastic feats: falling and bouncing
Balancing act: the physics of levers