American Experience: Tesla Worksheet (2016)
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American Experience: Tesla Worksheet (2016)
American Experience: Tesla (2016) is a biographical look inside the mind of one of America’s greatest inventors. Nikola Tesla is best remembered for making alternating current the standard by which we power modern society. But this documentary also looks into his business dealings, scientific speculations, numerous electrical patents, and futuristic dreams that made him a scientific prophet, years ahead of his time. This documentary also looks into his eccentricities and his ungrounded imagination which fueled his greatness but was also the cause of his downfall.
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Apollo 13 Movie Worksheet (1995, PG-13)
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Apollo 13 Movie Worksheet (1995, PG-13)
Apollo 13 (1995, PG-13) is the real-life story of heroism, courage, and survival onboard the doomed flight of Apollo 13. This movie guide worksheet examines the storyline of the movie, while asking higher-order thinking questions about the plot, character development, situational dilemmas, and the meaning behind the symbolism as the movie unfolds. At its core, the film tells a story about faith in technology and faith in the strength of human willpower needed to overcome technological malfunctions in a life-or-death fight for survival. Only 3 of the 46 questions directly related to the physics shown in the movie, so being familiar with Newton’s laws will be necessary to answer those. One of those physics questions hits on a violation of Newton’s Laws shown in the movie. Topics alluded to include the space race, American history, engineering and design, spaceflight, course trajectories, course corrections, inertial properties, Newton’s Laws of Motion, and Newton’s Law of Universal Gravitation.
This movie is appropriate for the following classes: physics, astronomy, physical science, general science, and American history.
The runtime for the movie is 2:14 minutes, designed to be shown over 3 days of class. The movie will play for roughly 45 minutes each day, allowing time at the end of class for a teacher-facilitated discussion or individual student answers. The movie guide worksheet is 5 pages long, with a total of 46 questions.
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Calculating Gravitational Potential Energy, Height, Mass, Kinetic Energy, and Velocity Worksheet
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Calculating Gravitational Potential Energy, Height, Mass, Kinetic Energy, and Velocity Worksheet
This is a 19-problem worksheet on 4 pages (2 sheets, front and back sides). These multistep problems involve multiplication, division, addition, subtraction, exponents, and the use of square roots. Students should have a grasp of basic algebra and know the order of operations. They will solve for gravitational potential energy, mass, height, velocity, and kinetic energy.
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COSMOS Episode 2: Some of the Things that Molecules Do Worksheet (2014)
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COSMOS Episode 2: Some of the Things that Molecules Do Worksheet (2014)
COSMOS Episode 2: Some of the Things that Molecules Do (2014) continues the exploration of our human origins through the eyes of science. This episode explains the origins of species by means of natural and artificial selection. It also looks at the origin and evolution of life from the microscopic to macroscopic scale. Neil DeGrasse Tysons explores the possibility of life on other worlds, even in our own solar system!
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COSMOS Episode 3: When Knowledge Conquered Fear Worksheet (2014)
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COSMOS Episode 3: When Knowledge Conquered Fear Worksheet (2014)
COSMOS Episode 3: When Knowledge Conquered Fear (2014) traces the rise of modern science during the time of the enlightenment. The transformation from a religious explanation for the workings of the cosmos to a scientific-based paradigm is told with exquisite detail through the development of the personal friendship between Isaac Newton and Edmund Halley. This episode shows the true predictive powers of science as opposed to mysticism and pseudoscience.
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COSMOS Episode 4: A Sky Full of Ghosts Worksheet (2014)
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COSMOS Episode 4: A Sky Full of Ghosts Worksheet (2014)
COSMOS Episode 4: A Sky Full of Ghosts (2014) links our scientific progress and understanding to our human need to find meaning in our existence. Neil DeGrasse Tyson guides us through this journey by explaining that optical phenomenon, like illusions or “ghosts,” can also be analyzed through the eyes of science, giving us a more complete understanding of the reality surrounding us. He links Einstein’s understanding of light and gravity to show us that it is possible to infer the existence of objects we cannot see—like black holes!
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COSMOS Episode 5: Hiding in the Light Worksheet (2014)
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COSMOS Episode 5: Hiding in the Light Worksheet (2014)
COSMOS Episode 5: Hiding in the Light (2014) gives an in-depth explanation of the fascinating phenomenon of light. Neil DeGrasse Tyson traces our earliest, first ponderings of light in ancient China through modern spectroscopy and the phenomenon of dark matter. He artfully links world-wide cultural contributions over the centuries concerning light to create an immersive story-line that holds a student’s attention. Yes, this is actually possible!
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COSMOS Episode 6: Deeper, Deeper, Deeper Still Worksheet (2014)
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COSMOS Episode 6: Deeper, Deeper, Deeper Still Worksheet (2014)
COSMOS Episode 6: Deeper, Deeper, Deeper Still (2014) relates our understanding (and subsequent interpretation) of reality to our rather limited perspectives of scale. Neil DeGrasse Tyson reveals reality from a subatomic scale to the entire known universe. He tells the story of evolutionary processes that work on different levels of size and scale. Tyson links the deep relationship the atoms we are made from with their creation from the ashes of stars that exploded before the sun was even formed.
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COSMOS Episode 7: The Clean Room Worksheet (2014)
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COSMOS Episode 7: The Clean Room Worksheet (2014)
COSMOS Episode 7: The Clean Room (2014) links civilization’s impact on the environment to our abilities to make drastic changes in the way our society’s consumerism functions. Neil DeGrasse Tyson uses lessons from Ancient Rome to examine the impact of toxic material in the environment and our society. He also tells the dramatic story of Pat Patterson who, at great personal cost, used scientific research to change laws regarding the use of lead in gasoline.
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COSMOS Episode 9: The Lost Worlds of Planet Earth Worksheet (2014)
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COSMOS Episode 9: The Lost Worlds of Planet Earth Worksheet (2014)
COSMOS Episode 9: The Lost Worlds of Planet Earth (2014) teaches us how to read the autobiography of the earth. Neil DeGrasse Tyson explains that to read this book, we must understand the relationship between the atoms, elements, geophysics, biochemistry, and time. This episode is great for a biology, geology, chemistry, or an environmental science class, since it delves deep into the relationship between the biological evolution of life and the geologic and environmental conditions necessary over many time periods.
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COSMOS Episode 12: The World Set Free Worksheet (2014)
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COSMOS Episode 12: The World Set Free Worksheet (2014)
COSMOS Episode 12: The World Set Free (2014) is a great environmental wake-up call for the citizens of earth. Neil DeGrasse Tyson effectively demonstrates the parallels of the runaway greenhouse effect that occurred on Venus (and the hellish conditions it produced) and what we are currently doing to the earth. Tyson presents solid, scientific evidence to support his claims. But does humanity have the will to take the steps necessary before it is too late?
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COSMOS Episode 13: Unafraid of the Dark Worksheet (2014)
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COSMOS Episode 13: Unafraid of the Dark Worksheet (2014)
COSMOS Episode 13: Unafraid of the Dark (2014) wraps-up the COSMOS series by exploring the constant fight between intelligence, compassion, and understanding, versus the darker side of the human condition, manifested by fear, ignorance, and brutality. Neil DeGrasse Tyson connects the path to salvation through the application of the principles of science to facilitate reasoning and a societal enlightenment. In the end, any journey of societal growth starts with the individual. Individual choices, based on sound reasoning and rational thought, help to form a grass-roots movement, whereby ignorance and fear slowly start to give way and lose their appeal. This is the main message the COSMOS series endeavors to relay. This final episode delivers that message right on-time.
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