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Author Prigo, Robert

Title Making Physics Fun : Key Concepts, Classroom Activities, and Everyday Examples, Grades K-8
Published Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (241 pages)
Contents Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author -- Chapter 1 -- Motion and Force -- Inertia and Newton's First Law of Motion -- Concepts -- Activities -- Everyday Examples -- Fundamental Forces and Newton's Third Law of Motion -- Concepts -- Activities -- Everyday Examples -- Net Force, Acceleration, and Newton's Second Law of Motion -- Concepts -- Activities -- Everyday Examples -- Motion Circus -- Sample Investigable Questions -- Chapter 2 -- Fluids and Buoyancy -- Gases and Liquids as Fluids -- Pressure in a Gas and Atmospheric Pressure -- Concepts -- Activities -- Everyday Examples -- Liquid Pressure -- Concepts -- Activities -- Everyday Examples -- Archimedes' Principle: Sinking and Floating -- Concepts -- Activities -- Everyday Examples -- Fluids in Motion: Bernoulli's Principle -- Concepts -- Activities -- Everyday Examples -- Fluids and Buoyancy Circus -- A Bernoulli Circus -- Sample Investigable Questions -- Chapter 3 -- Waves and Sound -- Waves and Wave Motion -- Concepts -- Types of Waves and Wave Speed -- Periodic Waves: Wavelength, Frequency, and Amplitude -- Wave Reflection and Transmission -- Superposition Principle -- Activities -- Everyday Examples -- Sound Waves -- Concepts -- Activities -- Everyday Examples -- Waves and Sound Circus -- Sample Investigable Questions -- Chapter 4 -- Light and Electromagnetic Waves -- Waves and/or Particles -- Sources of Light -- Concepts -- Activities -- Everyday Examples -- Light and Matter -- Concepts -- Activities -- Everyday Examples -- Light Travels in Straight Lines -- Concepts -- Activities -- Everyday Examples -- Reflection -- Concepts -- Activities -- Everyday Examples -- Refraction -- Concepts -- Activities -- Everyday Examples -- Total Internal Reflection -- Concepts -- Activities -- Everyday Examples -- Dispersion and Color -- Concepts -- Activities
Everyday Examples -- Diffraction and Interference -- Concepts -- Activities -- Everyday Examples -- Light Circus -- Sample Investigable Questions -- Chapter 5 -- Electricity and Magnetism -- Electric Charge and the Electric Force and Field -- Concepts -- Activities -- Everyday Examples -- Electric Current and the Magnetic Force and Field -- Concepts -- Activities -- Magnets Interacting with Magnets and Magnetic Materials -- Magnets Interacting with Current-Carrying Wires -- Current-Carrying Wires Interacting with Current-Carrying Wires -- Everyday Examples -- Magnets Interacting with Magnets and Magnetic Materials -- Magnets Interacting with Current-Carrying Wires -- Electromagnetic Induction -- Concepts -- Activities -- Everyday Examples -- Electric and Magnetic Circus -- Sample Investigable Questions -- References and Resources -- Index
Summary In easy-to-understand language, this resource presents engaging, ready-to-use learning experiences that address the ""big ideas"" in K-8 science education and help students make larger, real-world connections
Notes Print version record
Subject Physics -- Study and teaching (Middle school) -- Activity programs
Physics -- Study and teaching (Elementary) -- Activity programs
Physics -- Study and teaching (Elementary) -- Activity programs
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781412926621
1412926629