Physics experiments/activities do not have to be costly in time or resources. Teachers also do not need to limit their equipment purchases to "high tech" or specialty materials sold exclusively through science supply catalogs. Many valuable data collection activities can be performed using inexpensive materials that may be purchased from local department, hardware, and/or toy stores.
"The activity will help give students a kinesthetic feel for the inertia concept. This lab is a great way to provide students with an experience that can be very thoroughly discussed and analyzed."
This site contains both the downloadable simulation for building bridges, and the pdf files with information on the manila folder bridge building activity.
College Ready Physics Standards: A Look to the Future
written by Patricia Heller and Gay Stewart
This document contains a set of K-12 educational standards for physics. This work is an extension of Advanced Placement standards to a full K-12 progression of physics concepts. There are five main standards each with a set of objectives, foundation knowledge statements, conceptual learning targets, and learning outcomes. The document also includes instructional guides for each of the standards and objectives to help teachers interpret and address the learning outcomes. These guides include common student difficulties and the content boundaries for each grade band, as well as example activities, questions, and problems.
"Students will utilize conservation of mass-energy to explain how the annihilating collision of a proton and an anti-proton can produce a particle with six times the mass of either."