Galileo Galilei Time Line
A time line of the life of Galileo Galilei.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/galileo-galilei-time-line
Heat Transfer by Conduction
The purpose of this activity is to monitor the transfer of heat between 2 materials by measuring the temperature changes in them.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/heat-transfer-by-conduction
Linearity and Density
Students will perform an activity to determine the density of a metal from a graph of mass versus volumehttps://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/linearity-and-density
Linearity with an investigation of Hooke's Law
Students will perform an activity which allows them to discover Hooke's Law for springs and determine the spring constant of a springhttps://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/linearity-with-an-investigation-of-hookes-law
Force on a Spring
The Learning Check file assesses student understanding of Hooke's Law.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/force-on-a-spring
Motion Pretest
Students will assess their prior knowledge about motion.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/motion-pretest
Curve Ball
In this activity, students' will create a Height-Time plot for a bouncing ball and use a quadratic equation to describe the ball's motion.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/curve-ball
Discovering Ohm's Law
In this activity students use Vernier Voltage and Current Probes to investigate Ohm's Law. The students collect data and use their graphing calculators to perform data analysis and "discover" Ohm's Law.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/discovering-ohms-law
Solar Cookers and Easy Data
Students use a TI-84, Easy Temp and Easy Data to measure the quality of their solar cookers. Hot dogs are heated under the May sunshine after students design, build and test their own solar cookers.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/solar-cookers-and-easy-data
Introduction to Electric Circuits
This activity will show how to properly connect wires to make a closed electric circuit. Included in this will be how to connect batteries in series and/or in parallel, and how to properly measure potential drops across a resistor and current for electron current and conventional current circui...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/introduction-to-electric-circuits
Electron Vocabulary
This StudyCards(tm) stack enables students to review the vocabulary used in studying electron behavior.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/electron-vocabulary
Energy Skate Park - PhET (HS)
TBDhttps://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/energy-skate-park--phet-hs
Making Cents of Density
In this activity, students will measure the mass and volume of several collections of a coin type and enter the data into their handhelds and explore for patterns. Students will also make a plot of mass vs. volume and create a mathematical model that demonstrates the relationship between mass and...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/making-cents-of-density
Exploring Hooke's Law
Students will conduct experiment to determine the spring constant of a spring scale and interpret data to find a linear fit for the data points.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/exploring-hookes-law
Subnivean Comfort
Students measure and compare air temperatures inside and outside a snow shelter. If students choose to sleep in the shelter overnight they use the temperature measurements to confirm what they discover experientially- that snow is a great insulator!https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/subnivean-comfort
What is Boiling?
We will investigate the effects of heat on matter by studying boiling waterhttps://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/what-is-boiling
Falling Down
In this activity, students' will determine the average speed of a falling object. They will observe whether or not changing the mass and keeping the same shape have an effect on the average speed of the object.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/falling-down
Vernier - The Magnetic Field in a Slinky
Students use a Magnetic Field Sensor to measure the magnetic field and the current in a solenoid. They explore factors that affect the magnetic field, study how the field varies in parts of the solenoid, and determine the permeability constant.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/vernier--the-magnetic-field-in-a-slinky
Steady-State Circuit Analysis and Filter Design
Shows how the TI-89 implements phasors to perform sinusoidal steady-state analysis. the focus in on how to enter and display complex numbers. This chapter also shows a typical steady-state application - how to use the Numeric Solver to find the required order of lowpass Butterworth and Chebyshe...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/steadystate-circuit-analysis-and-filter-design
Work-Energy Theorem Applied to a Cart Pulled Down a Track
In this activity, students will analyze the relationship between the maximum speed of a cart pulled by a falling mass and the work done by gravity. Students will measure the speed of the cart, calculate the work in each trial, make a graph of speed vs. work, and determine an equation which will ...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/workenergy-theorem-applied-to-a-cart-pulled-down-a-track
Number and Operations - 100 or Bust
Students explore the operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of whole numbers and integers.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/number-and-operations--100-or-bust
Silenced Songbirds
Students calculate the probable number of Golden-Cheeked Warblers present in a particular area. Students prepare a marked map, calculate the number of square miles in the marked area, and estimate the number of birds that live in the area.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/silenced-songbirds
What's the Plan?
Students investigate area with nonstandard and standard units of measure. They work to plan a unique vegetable garden and calculate the costs of plants for the garden.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/whats-the-plan
What's My Ratio?
Students use linear measurement and calculators to investigate proportionality and determine the constant ratio between similar figures.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/whats-my-ratio