ACTIVITIES
Honors Physics 2004-2005
- Design Your Own Accident Mystery
- Students in groups will set up a diagram of an accident scene using Hot Wheels®, accurately showing skidmarks, debris, and gouges in the road, based on calculations and observations. Groups will then exchange the diagrams and try to re-create each other's accidents
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- Water Bottle Rocket Challenge
- Combined physics classes project. A 20 or 24 oz water bottle will --- when half-filled with H2O, pressurized to 80 psi, and launched --- stay in the air about 4 seconds before landing. In groups, students must attach materials to the rocket to cause it to stay in the air longer. All materials will be provided by the physics department.
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- Design Your Own Amusement Park Ride
- Using simple materials, students will design a spinning amusement park ride LEGO® people that will fit on a turntable. The goal is to maximize the fun (acceleration)!
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- First TPL Activity: Horizontal Shot
- Students will fire their TPLs horizontally and measure the change in position in both the horizontal and vertical directions in order to calculate the initial velocity of the projectile.
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- National Engineer's Week Challenges
- Day 1: The 1-meter Car Challenge Students must make a small plastic car move forward one meter with these materials: balloon, straw, rubber band, paper and paper clip.
Day2: The Neutral Buoyancy Challenge Students must make a balloon and cup neutrally buoyant by adding rice to the cup.
Day 3: The Corporate Challenge Students break their teams up into design, manufacturing and quality assurance divisions in order to manufacture a small LEGO® product in the shortest amount of time.
Day 4: The Silent Tower Challenge Students in teams try to build the tallest tower possible in 10 minutes with paper and tape, but may not speak at all during the 10 minutes.
Day 5: The Great Gumball Gunkulator
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GUNKULATION WITH NO TWEAKS AND 5 MINUTES TO SPARE! |
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GUNKULATION WITH NO TWEAKS AND 7 MINUTES TO SPARE! |
- D-TOWN!
- Students construct buildings out of spaghetti and a limited number of Dots® that must keep a Lego® person at least 50 cm above the ground in spite of various "natural" disasters
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