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The materials and supplies that are being requested will be used by the students to build and experiment with real-world physics problems through laboratory investigation. The biggest and most exciting project that students will complete is the balsa wood bridge. This bridge must weigh no more that 100 grams and be able to support at least a 40 pound load. This challenge incorporates the engineering side of physics and empowers students to think outside the box, but requires many supplies that we do not have in the lab such as balsa wood, wood glue and wood saws. By donating to our on-going physics projects, you will not only help to improve and increase student attention and focus, you will ultimately help to increase their academic achievement. With your help, students will learn essential physics skills through many exciting, hands-on labs. With the toy cars, they can calculate speed, velocity and acceleration and differentiate between vectors and scalars. By designing a bobsled, they will learn how friction affects motion. When designing a roller coaster, they will learn how forces affect moving objects and how energy is transferred. Through their construction of a sound-proof booth, they will learn how sound waves travel. Students will be able to investigate the behaviors of light waves using mirrors and lasers. They will also be able to calculate the width of a single strand of hair using the diffraction of a laser beam. For many culminating projects, students will be given many of these supplies, and they will be challenged to apply what they have learned throughout the unit to construct the best prototype. They will build a catapult to hit a specific target based on their calculations, a boat that holds at least 10 pounds, and wire and light a house and many more.

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The materials and supplies that are being requested will be used by the students to build and experiment with real-world physics problems through laboratory investigation. The biggest and most exciting project that students will complete is the balsa wood bridge. This bridge must weigh no more that 100 grams and be able to support at least a 40 pound load. This challenge incorporates the engineering side of physics and empowers students to think outside the box, but requires many supplies that we do not have in the lab such as balsa wood, wood glue and wood saws. By donating to our on-going physics projects, you will not only help to improve and increase student attention and focus, you will ultimately help to increase their academic achievement. With your help, students will learn essential physics skills through many exciting, hands-on labs. With the toy cars, they can calculate speed, velocity and acceleration and differentiate between vectors and scalars. By designing a bobsled, they will learn how friction affects motion. When designing a roller coaster, they will learn how forces affect moving objects and how energy is transferred. Through their construction of a sound-proof booth, they will learn how sound waves travel. Students will be able to investigate the behaviors of light waves using mirrors and lasers. They will also be able to calculate the width of a single strand of hair using the diffraction of a laser beam. For many culminating projects, students will be given many of these supplies, and they will be challenged to apply what they have learned throughout the unit to construct the best prototype. They will build a catapult to hit a specific target based on their calculations, a boat that holds at least 10 pounds, and wire and light a house and many more.

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