Ramp It Up

Using inquiry techniques, students, working in groups, are asked to design and conduct experiments to test the Law of Conservation of Energy and the Law of Conservation of Momentum. Upon being provided with textbooks, rulers, measuring tapes, stopwatches, mini-storage containers, golf balls, marbles, rubber balls, steel balls, and pennies, they work cooperatively to implement and revise their hypotheses. With limited guidance from the teacher, students are able to visualize the relationships between mass, velocity, height, gravitational potential energy, kinetic energy, and total energy as well as the relationships between mass, velocity, and momentum.
Resource ID#: 51181 Type: Lesson Plan
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General Information

Subject(s): Mathematics, English Language Arts, Science
Grade Level(s): 9, 10, 11, 12
Intended Audience: Educators educators
Suggested Technology: Graphing Calculators, Computer for Presenter, Interactive Whiteboard, Basic Calculators, Overhead Projector, Microsoft Office
Instructional Time: 3 Hour(s)
Keywords: energy, gravitational potential energy, potential energy, kinetic energy, conservation of energy, Law of Conservation of Energy, momentum, conservation of momentum, Law of Conservation of Momentum
Instructional Component Type(s): Lesson Plan,  Problem-Solving Task,  Instructional Technique,  Formative Assessment
Instructional Design Framework(s): Guided Inquiry (Level 3), Cooperative Learning
Resource Collection: CPALMS Lesson Plan Development Initiative

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