Concave Mirrors
In this lesson, students will explore the reflection of a movable object in a concave mirror.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/concave-mirrors
Rotational Motion and Torque
In this lesson, students will model situations where a simple lever is in balance.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/rotational-motion-and-torque
Coulomb's Law
Students explore the relationship between force, charge, and distance for two charged particles, i.e., Coulomb's law.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/coulombs-law_1
Lenses and Light
In this lesson, students will explore the characteristics of lenses.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/lenses-and-light
Mass on a Spring
In this lesson, students will simulate the motion of an anvil attached to a spring as it oscillates on a frictionless, horizontal surface.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/mass-on-a-spring
Free Body Diagrams
In this lesson, students will explore the relationships of the different forces on an object such as weight, normal force, parallel force, and friction.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/free-body-diagrams
NASA - ARED -- Resistive Exercise in Space
In this lesson, students will explore the real-world situation of resistive exercise in space.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/nasa--ared--resistive-exercise-in-space
Impulse-Momentum Theorem
Students explore the relationships between momentum, force, and impulse for the linear collision of a ball with an unmovable wall.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/impulsemomentum-theorem
Energy in Simple Harmonic Motion
In this lesson, students will simulate a mass attached to a spring as it oscillates in simple harmonic motion.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/energy-in-simple-harmonic-motion
Sound and Waves
In this lesson, students change characteristics of a sine wave to discover the frequency, amplitude, and phase shift. They will also use these properties to see the effect of adding two waves to form dampening and beats.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/sound-and-waves
Takeoff of an Airplane
Students investigate the acceleration data for a taxiing Boeing 737 to calculate the velocity of the plane as it taxies down the runway.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/takeoff-of-an-airplane
Two-Dimensional Motion and Vectors
In this lesson, students will investigate two-dimensional vectors using the simulation of a boat crossing a river.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/twodimensional-motion-and-vectors
Internal Energy and Work
In this lesson, students will develop the equation for work by observing the relationship between volume change and work done in a cylinder and piston at constant pressure.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/internal-energy-and-work
Logarithmic Transformations
Test knowledge and determine the logarithmic function for a given graph.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/logarithmic-transformations
Probability of Repeated Independent Events
Investigate probability by simulating tossing a coin three times.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/probability-of-repeated-independent-events
Addition by Division
In this lesson, students investigate the cell cycle of mitosis.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/addition-by-division
Punnett Pea Predictor
In this lesson, students will explore patterns of genetic inheritance through a simulation. This activity was created using Lua.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/punnett-pea-predictor
Need for Speed
In this lesson, students will investigate the properties of enzymes and how they affect reaction rates.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/need-for-speed
Sampling Distributions
This lesson involves examining samples from a normal population and observing the distribution of the means of those samples.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/sampling-distributions_1
Traveling Blue Genes
In this lesson, students will simulate, observe, and manipulate the variables that affect the results of DNA gel electrophoresis.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/traveling-blue-genes
Scavenger Hunt- Precalculus
This scavenger hunt will refresh students’ math knowledge while practicing their TI-84 graphing calculator skills. This .PDF includes: Student answer sheets, Q/A posters to hang around the room and teacher answer/hint sheet.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/scavenger-hunt_precalc
Vernier - Air Resistance
Students use the Vernier Motion Detector to measure the effect of air resistance on falling objects. They determine how air resistance and mass affect the terminal velocity of a falling object and then choose a force model that fits the data.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/vernier--air-resistance_1
Vernier - Falling Objects
In this activity, students will use a Motion Detector to measure distance and velocity.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/vernier--falling-objects
Vernier - Chill Out: How Hot Objects Cool
Students use a temperature probe to collect data as the warmed probe cools. Students investigate Newton's law of cooling and model cooling data with an exponential function. They fit the data to a mathematical model after analysis.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/vernier--chill-out-how-hot-objects-cool
Stacking Bricks
This activity presents a real-world situation--stacking bricks in a pile--that can be modeled by a polynomial function.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/stacking-bricks_1