Downhill Race Measure motion under constant acelleration http://www.exo.net/~pauld/activities/Downhillrace/Downhillrace.htm
Blinky lights, meaure any type of motion with a rapidly blinking light, http://www.exo.net/~pauld/activities/motion/BlinkyLight/BlinkyLights.html
Falling rhythm, dropped objects accelerate too quickly under gravity for you to measure their motion, however you can hear their motion.
http://www.exo.net/~pauld/activities/mathematics/fallingrhythm.htm
Curved track: Gravtity's Rainbow, Tautochrone and tides: http://www.exo.net/~pauld/activities/curvedtrack/CurvedTrack.htm
Reaction timer, use a ruler falling with constant acceleration under gravity to calculate your reaction time http://www.exo.net/~pauld/books/car_science/reactiontimer.html
Tide explorer: three marbles rolled along a groove with the shape y = -1/x will show the motion of objects in freefall near the earth. The marbles separate because they experience tidal forces.
http://www.exo.net/~pauld/activities/tides/tidesgravity.htm
Domino Model of a Nerve measure motion at constant velocity, and then explore how it depends on the spacing between the dominos.
http://www.exo.net/~pauld/summer_institute/summer_day15current/Domino_model_of_a_nerve/Domino_model_of_a_nerve.html
Waves on a phonecord Travel at a constant speed which you can measure: http://www.exo.net/~pauld/summer_institute/summer_day10waves/slowwavesonaphonecord2.html
Terminal Velocity, after accelerating downward a shrt distance a coffee filter will approach a constant terminal velocity. http://www.exo.net/~pauld/activities/flying/TerminalVelocity.html
A frictionless airpuck on a level surface travels at constant speed.: http://www.exo.net/~pauld/activities/frictionless_cd_puck.html
Simply measure the period of a pendulum http://www.exo.net/~pauld/activities/pendulums/pendulums.html
Motion walking functions: http://philo.exploratorium.edu/~loril/activities/Walking%20Functions.pdf
Walking function 2 (different speeds) Velocity and Slope
Just when you think everything falls at a constant acceleration of g try this, Falling Slinky http://www.exo.net/~pauld/activities/drop_a_slinky.html
Web Resources
LIGO: http://www.ligo.caltech.edu/
LIGO Livingston Science Education Center: http://www.ligo-la.caltech.edu/worksheets/SEC/sechome.html
The Exploratorium: http://www.exploratorium.edu/
Teacher Institute: http://www.exploratorium.edu/ti/
Index of activities: http://www.exploratorium.edu/educate/index.html
Iron Science Teacher: http://www.exploratorium.edu/iron_science/index.php
Images and videos for teachers: http://nsdl.exploratorium.edu/nsdl/welcome.do
Exploratorium You Tube: http://www.youtube.com/user/Exploratorium
Paul Doherty: http://www.exo.net/~pauld/
List of activities: http://www.exo.net/~pauld/site_map.html
Lori Lambertson: http://philo.exploratorium.edu/~loril/
Eric Muller: http://www.exo.net/%7Eemuller/
Larry Braile Earth Science: http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~braile/indexlinks/educ.htm
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