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Vector Addition "Road Trip" Lab Activity
Overview:In this activity, students will use both the tip-to-tail graphing method and the analytical components method of vector addition in order to determine the resultant displacement of two, cross-country, trips which each have three individual "legs."Materials:Ruler, Protractor, Pencil, Calculator, Handout
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10th - 12th
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Angle Launched Projectiles Lab Bundle
How does launch angle impact the range, hang time, and maximum height of a projectile?
Allow your students to investigate and explore angle launched projectiles with this Angle Launch Virtual Lab (which uses and online applet from PhET) and Nerf Launcher Lab (which uses Nerf guns).
Whether you use the online, face-to-face, or both versions of this lab, your students will observe and analyze how 2D vectors, component vectors, projectile motion, geometry, and trigonometry come into play for proj
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7th - 12th
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Water Balloon Launcher Lab
This lab is very fun and exciting! The bonus is you get to go outdoors. You will use a standard water balloon launcher to calculate the maximum height a balloon went after being launch as well as the velocity of the balloon. There are two parts to the lab. Part 1 involves collecting data and building a graph. Part 2 is calculating velocity and maximum height. ENJOY!!
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7th - 12th
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Solving Triangles using Excel (Editable)
I think that when we use technology in the classroom with our students, we should teach them to use technology as a tool. One of the best applications for using a spreadsheet in class is in the solution of triangles. After my students have mastered the laws of sines and cosines with handheld calculators, and are familiar with the ambiguous case, I have them redo the same problems using excel.
It is a very challenging activity for them.
NOTE: Your students will need to have access to a comp
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10th - 12th
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Discovering Sine and Cosine Function Graphs
In this activity, students will use a linked Geogebra to explore the graphs of sine and cosine functions. They will manipulate the amplitude, the period, the phase shift, and the vertical shift parameters to determine how changing those parameters in the function affects its graph. They will reflect on how the algebra of the function relates to its geometry. They will then reflect upon what they have done by coming up with an equation for the period of the functions, exploring the sine/cosine
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Modeling Tides with Trig Functions
In this activity, students analyze data sets about water depth through the daily tidal cycle. While completing this activity, students:-- practice computing the parameters of sinusoidal functions and check their work by fitting an equation to the scatterplot-- interpret the meaning of different parameters in context-- determine how a verbal description of changes to the environment would impact parameter values-- introduce a new term to a basic sinusoidal function to incorporate changes in globa
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9th - 12th
Also included in:Â Modeling Tides with Trigonometric Functions
PHET Vector Lab (Online Simulator)
I created this lab as an intro into two dimensional motion for my physics classes. The lab uses all the techniques of adding vectors head-to-tail and demonstrates for them that the two vectors being added to make a resultant are the components of that resultant. This lab is great practice and very self-explanatory for grades 11 and 12. I created this lab so that it was an electronic lab so that they could open the lab on their computers, fill out the lab in MS Word, and submit it back to me onli
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11th - 12th, Higher Education
Trig in the Tower Day (Using Trigonometry in the Real World) (Editable)
After weeks of doing right-triangle trigonometry, I find that my "best" trigonometry students struggle to apply what they learned to an outdoor setting. I wrote this activity so that students would have a chance to calculate the height of a school building tower. At some schools, I have called this "Trig in the Trees" day, since it often involves determining the height of a tree on campus.
You'll need to set up the three challenges, two of which involve cones. (You could use any classroom ob
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10th - 12th
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Trig Modeling and Pendulum Motion Lab
In this activity, students:-- decompose the motion of a swinging pendulum into horizontal and vertical components-- use right triangle trig to construct pairs of theoretical equations describing the motion of a pendulum with given characteristics (string length, drop angle, etc.)-- use the regression features of desmos.com to compare their theoretical equations to observed data-- use regression analysis to discover which characteristics of a pendulum determine its period (spoiler alert: period i
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9th - 12th
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Also included in:Â Trig Modeling and Pendulum Motion
Modeling Length of Daylight Hours with Trig Functions
In this activity, students analyze data sets modeling hours of sunlight in three cities over the course of the year (Sydney, Juneau, and Washington D.C.) To complete the activity, students must:-- practice computing the parameters of sinusoidal functions and check their work by fitting an equation to the scatterplot-- use their equations to predict the hours of sunlight on specific days of the year-- use their graphs and equations to predict when pairs of cities will have the same amount of sunl
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9th - 12th
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Also included in:Â Modeling Seasonal Daylight Length with Trig Functions
Modeling the Business Cycle with Trig Functions
In this lab, students analyze GDP data from five fictional countries. To complete the activity, students:-- create scatterplots of their data using desmos.com/calculator (or other graphing utility)-- use their data sets to compute the parameters of underlying sinusoidal functions and use Desmos to compare their estimates to the data sets-- interpret the parameters of their equations in context by describing how the economies of each country compare and contrast to each other.-- are challenged to
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9th - 12th
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Also included in:Â Modeling the Business Cycle with Trig Functions: Activity and Data Set
Physics lab - circle graphs
Students plot points along a circumference and then plot these points with Excel to form the six standard trigonometric graphs.
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11th - 12th
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PhET Trig Tour --Unit Circle/ Sine Waves
This is a free resource as I am looking for teacher feedback--please use and review to help make this another high quality lab! This lab is1 of 50, which was made to pair with free PhET online simulations, which allow hands on engagement in a distance learning setting. Simply upload to google classroom. Make a student copy and let students fill in. Answer Key Included (So copy paste in a safe space :) Lab Objectives:Students will be able to assess sin and cos functions both as parts of triangle
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9th - 12th
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