Workshop Handouts

Use the right mouse button to save the following document. They come in Adobe Acrobat PDF format. When clicked with the left mouse button, documents would open in a new window. The "Teacher Docs", when available, come in a zip archive format and require a password. The zip includes the word version of the document as well as a PDF of suggested answers. In some cases, additional assessement documents or supporting documents are provided. The password is provided to workshop participants and teachers. If you need to get the password, send me an email from your school official email address. Users of the Windows operating system can use this free utility for opening up zips and other types of archives: http://www.7-zip.org/.

  1. Forces & Motion (GPS-S8P3)
    1. Position Graphs - Motion at constant velocity in one direction and the other including staying at rest - Teacher Docs
    2. Position Graphs - Speeding up or slowing down in one direction or other direction - Teacher Docs
    3. Position Graphs - Complicated motion - Teacher Docs
    4. Average and instantaneous velocity: MS Word Document (.doc) - Teacher Docs
    5. Velocity Graphs - Motion at constant velocity in one direction and the other including staying at rest: MS Word Document (.doc) - Teacher Docs
    6. Velocity Graphs - Speeding up or slowing down in one direction or the other direction: MS Word Document (.doc) - Teacher Docs
    7. Acceleration and Velocity: MS Word Document (.doc) - Teacher Docs
    8. Position Graph Competition: MS Word Document (.doc) - Teacher Docs
    9. Velocity Graphs - Complicated motion: MS Word Document (.doc) - Teacher Docs
    10. Velocity Graph Competition: MS Word Document (.doc) - Teacher Docs
    11. Free fall - Falling Nuts: MS Word Document (.doc) - Teacher Docs
    12. Free fall - Falling in 2D: MS Word Document (.doc) - Teacher Docs
    13. Energy & Motion: MS Word Document (.doc) - Teacher Docs
    14. Forces and Motion: Ball on a Horizontal Track MS Word Document (.doc) - Teacher Docs
    15. Forces and Motion: Ball moving vertically MS Word Document (.doc) - Teacher Docs
    16. Forces and Motion: Ball moving on an incline MS Word Document (.doc) - Teacher Docs
    17. Forces and Motion: Forces on a wooden block MS Word Document (.doc) - Teacher Docs
    18. Friction: MS Word Document (.doc) - Teacher Docs
  2. Gravity, Electricity and Magnetism (GPS-S8P5)
    1. Free fall: MS Word Document (.doc) - Teacher Docs
    2. Free fall 2: MS Word Document (.doc) - Teacher Docs
    3. Magnets & Electromagnets: PDF Document (.pdf) - Teacher Docs
    4. Currents & Magnetism: PDF Document (.pdf) - Teacher Docs
    5. Homopolar Motor: PDF Document (.pdf) - Teacher Docs
  3. Waves (GPS-S8P4)
    1. Optics: PDF Document (.pdf) - Teacher Docs
    2. Reflection & Refraction: PDF Document (.pdf) - Teacher Docs
    3. Jello Optics: PDF Document (.pdf) - Teacher Docs
  4. Matter (GPS-S8P1)
    1. Refer to old website for previous activities

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Credits

These activities are the results of many years of teachings and many hours of research. Even though I would like to claim that I came up with all these ideas, I doubt that any of them is new. We are blessed these days with an amazing access to many resources, all were developed by bright, dedicated and hard working individuals. In my case, I often think that I came up with a great idea to later find out, through a quick search, that several people have posted resources that are very similar Did I read one of them before and simply forgot that I did? That is very possible; I sometimes forget what I ate for breakfast. Since I am not intending to make any profit of these resources, I did not find it necessary to find similar resources for each activity and include them as reference. However, if you feel that I stole your unique idea and would like me to either remove the handout or give you credit, please provide me with information supporting your claim and I will gladly oblige. Please note that I regularly submit content that I find useful to both http://physicsfront.org and http://physicssource.org the digital libraries for introductory physics.
Taha Mzoughi