This website contains nine sets of curriculum materials on renewable energy sources, organized into units of instruction for Grades K-2, 3-5, 6-8, and 9-12. In the High Energy Hydrogen units, students investigate how a...

This website consists of a collection of short videos designed for computer analysis in introductory physics classrooms. The videos are 20-40 photograph frames in length and each depict a physical process commonly...

This student activity is designed to explore the concept of work. Using inclined planes with different slopes, students are lead to discover the invariance of force times distance for objects starting at the same height....

This student activity is designed to help students understand the concept of power. The energy required to climb stairs, and the rate at which students can do this, illustrates this concept. The energy requirements for...

This item, created by Tom Henderson, is is a five-part tutorial on energy basics written for high school students. The author approaches work and energy as a means to analyze the motion of objects. Detailed...