Resolving Vectors
Students observe the relationship between a vector and its x- and y-components.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/resolving-vectors
Graphs of Antiderivatives
Students use their TI-Nspire to graph the anti-derivative of a function and investigate aspects of the this function and how it relates to the primitive function. For example, if a continuous derivative function changes from negative to positive, what does this produce on the primi...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/graphs-of-antiderivatives
Light and Waves
Students explore the interference patterns of waves formed by two point sources. Students are able to collect data and draw conclusions about the nodal lines formed by the interference.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/light-and-waves
Blood Pressure
In this lesson, students will assess blood pressure under changing conditions and make conclusions about the data they have collected.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/blood-pressure
Light Refraction
In this lesson, students visually explores refraction of light as it passes through different substances with different indexes of light.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/light-refraction
Looking Through the Lens
Students use simulated experiments to explore ray diagrams for converging and diverging thin lenses.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/looking-through-the-lens
Mechanical Advantage
In this lesson, students will explore the relationship between resistance force and effort force for the inclined plane and the lever.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/mechanical-advantage
Mechanical Advantage of Pulleys
Students explore a single-fixed-pulley system by varying the load and measure the force necessary to lift the load.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/mechanical-advantage-of-pulleys
NASA - Lunar Landing
In this activity, students explore the real-world problem of a lunar landing and the associated mathematics.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/nasa--lunar-landing
NASA - Weightless Wonder - Reduced Gravity Flight
Students examine the physics behind NASA astronauts participating in a C-9 flight simulating microgravity.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/nasa--weightless-wonder--reduced-gravity-flight
Vernier - Capacitors
In this lesson, students will use the voltage probe to measure the discharge of a capacitor.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/vernier--capacitors
Enzyme Catalysts
In this lesson, students will explore the impact of a changing environment on the reaction rates of an enzyme.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/enzyme-catalysts
Exploring Diffusion
In this lesson, students will explore diffusion through a selectively permeable membrane.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/exploring-diffusion
Vernier - Simple Harmonic Motion
In this lesson, students will use the motion detector to determine the amplitude, period, and phase constant of the observed simple harmonic motion.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/vernier--simple-harmonic-motion
Why Bigger is Not Necessarily Better
In this lesson, students will discover the dynamic relationship between the surface area and the volume of a "cell."https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/why-bigger-is-not-necessarily-better
Radioactive Dating Game (HS)
In this lesson, students will simulate radioactive dating at an archeological site.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/radioactive-dating-game-hs
Skills of Science - Creating Lab Reports
In this lesson, students see how to use PublishViewTM to create lab reports using the TI-Nspire computer software.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/skills-of-science--creating-lab-reports
NASA - A Breath of Fresh Air
In this activity, students will investigate how the ISS (International Space Station) goes about producing enough oxygen to maintain 6 crew members.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/nasa--a-breath-of-fresh-air
Two-Dimensional Collisions
Students observe animations of two-dimensional elastic collisions of spheres and then calculate linear momenta and kinetic energies.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/twodimensional-collisions
Uniform Circular Motion
Students explore uniform circular motion and solve problems that deal with kinematics and dynamics of this motion.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/uniform-circular-motion
Up and Down: Vertical Oscillations
Students explore vertical oscillations produced by a mass attached to an elastic spring and collect data on the force of the spring as a function of time.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/up-and-down-vertical-oscillations
Vernier - Conductivity of Solution: The Effect of Concentration
In this lesson, students will use the conductivity probe to measure conductivity of solutions.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/vernier--conductivity-of-solution-the-effect-of-concentration
Bending Light
In this activity, students explore the refraction of a single light ray. They begin by exploring light traveling from a less dense medium into a denser medium. They use a numerical approach to establish a relationship between the angle of incidence and the angle of refraction. Then, students expl...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/bending-light
Colligative Properties
Investigate the freezing point depression due to different concentration of solute.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/colligative-properties
Capacitors
Students explore the characteristics of capacitors. The activity begins with a look at the movement of charge in a parallel-plate capacitor and the effect of voltage on charge. Following the definition of capacitance, students explore how plate area, plate separation, and dielectrics affect capac...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/capacitors