Nuclear Decay and Chain Reactions
Students determine the decay constant and half-life and begin to look at nuclear fission by simulating a chain reaction.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/nuclear-decay-and-chain-reactions
Polarization of Light
Students use data collected during a lab to explore the relationship between polarized light and light intensity.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/polarization-of-light
Discrimination of Parabolas
Students manipulate progressively more flexible parabolas whilst a ‘special number’ is displayed on the screen. The problem for students to solve is ‘what is so special about this number’. Students continually review their conjectures as the parabola becomes more and more flexible.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/discrimination-of-parabolas
Potential and Kinetic Energy
Students explore the relationship between the mass, energy, and angle of a projected object fired from an idealized cannon.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/potential-and-kinetic-energy
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
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
Hare Today, Gone Tomorrow
In this lesson, students will use population data to study the relationship between predator and prey populations.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/hare-today-gone-tomorrow
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
Vernier - Sound Waves and Beats
In this lesson, students will use the microphone to measure the frequency and period of sound waves from tuning forks.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/vernier--sound-waves-and-beats
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
Molecular Weight
Students will find the atomic mass on the periodic table and use this to determine the mass of one atom, one mole of atoms. They will also determine formula masses.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/molecular-weight
Skills of Science - Graphical Analysis
In this lesson, students will graph different data sets to determine the mathematical relationship.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/skills-of-science--graphical-analysis
Tool - Vector
This tool can be used alone, or you can copy/paste it into another TNS document.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/tool--vector
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
Tool - Significant Figures Calculator
This tool can be used alone, or you can copy/paste it into another TNS document.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/tool--significant-figures-calculator
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
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
Vernier - Evaporation and Intermolecular Attraction
In this lesson, students will use the temperature probe to study the evaporation rate of different liquids.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/vernier--evaporation-and-intermolecular-attraction
Collisions in One Dimension
Students use the law of conservation of momentum to determine the momentums and velocities of objects involved in perfectly inelastic collisions.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/collisions-in-one-dimension
Conservation of Momentum Data Collection Lab
In this lesson, students will explore momentum through collecting data using CBR2s of two carts on a dynamic track that collide.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/conservation-of-momentum-data-collection-lab