SMILE PROGRAM PHYSICS INDEX


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The following is a collection of almost 200 single concept lessons. These lessons may be freely copied and used in a classroom but they remain the copyright property of the author(s) and the directors of the SMILE program.

The Physics lessons are divided into the following categories: Matter, Mechanics, Fluids, Electricity & Magnetism, Waves, Sound and Optics, and Miscellaneous.

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Matter

  • Introduction to the Periodic Table by Estellvenia Sanders - Chicago Vocational
  • Tempting Temperatures by Marjorie Fields - Ella Flagg Young
  • Air: Demonstrating Its Presence and Effects by Porter Johnson - Illinois Institute of Technology
  • Density by Marilyn Martello - Clinton
  • Air Movement by Lisa C. Ingram - Frederick Douglass Middle Academy
  • Gases Lighter and Heavier than Air by Bonnie Anderson - Libby School Annex
  • States of Matter by Kathleen Moore - O. W. Holmes
  • Temperature by Jackie Baker - Crown Community Academy
  • Exploring the Properties of Matter in the Preschool by Lorraine Watt - Brian Piccolo Elementary School
  • The Air Out There by Gladys Allen - Louis Wirth Experimental School
  • Comparing Densities of Different Liquids by Elaine Messal - Henry Clay Elementary
  • The Three States Of Matter by Sharon R. West - Edward Hurley
  • Solids, liquids and gases by Donna Armstrong - Frazier Elementary
  • Density in Relation to Float and Sink by Carolyn C. Roberson-Ellis - Morton Career Academy

    Mechanics

  • Gravity Lesson by Leticia Rodriguez - Ferdinand W. Peck
  • The Great Tin Race by Bernina L. Norton - Abbott School
  • Center of Gravity by Wanda Pitts - Douglas Community Academy
  • The Inertial Balance by Carl E. Martikean - Lew Wallace High School
  • Bouncing Balls by Porter Johnson - the Illinois Institute of Technology
  • Mass vs Weight by Earnest S. Garrison - Jones Academic Magnet
  • Bouncing Superball Physics - part 1 by Porter W. Johnson - Illinois Institute of Technology
  • Superball Physics Revisited by Porter Johnson - Illinois Institute of Technology
  • The Jensen Bar - What is it and how do you make one by Earl Zwicker - Illinois Institute of Technology
  • Linear Motion: Speed, Velocity & Acceleration by Richard J. Watson - Orr High School
  • Energy by Wanda Pitts - Douglas Academy
  • Potential Energy: How is It Related to Kinetic Energy? by Camille Gales - Edward Coles Elementary School
  • Mass/Acceleration by Renee M Allen - Louis Wirth
  • It's So Simple by Kimberly Baker-Brownfield - Jacques Marquette Branch
  • The Soup Roll by Christine Fair - Farragut High School
  • Straight Line Motion in Two Parts by Ann M. W. Brandon - Joliet West High School
  • Aviation by Portia Conaway - Farren Fine Arts School
  • Newton's Third Law by Jerri Chavis - Langston Hughes
  • Motion of a Bowling Ball by John J. Miller - Maine Township High School East
  • Strings and Springs by Michael McIntosh - Whitney Young Magnet High School
  • Super-Ball Physics by Porter W. Johnson - Illinois Institute of Technology
  • Inertia by Peter Insley - Retired
  • Momentum by Sandi Sorkin - Newton Bateman
  • Kinetic Energy and Work by Yolanda Mc Gehee - Lincoln Park High School
  • How to speed up a slow Grandfather - The Pendulum by Arthur Hermann - Fiske Middle School
  • Newton's Third Law Of Motion by Lilla E. Green - Hartigan Elementary School
  • Objects Race 500 by Eloise Dillon - Newton Bateman
  • Newton's Second Law; M - A Relationship with Dynamics Carts by D. James Chichester - Lincoln-Way High School
  • Potential Energy by LaToya Bennett - Robert H. Lawrence
  • Momentum by Sandra Tucker - Crown Fine Arts Academy
  • Projectiles by Rochelle Ingram - Delano School
  • Newton's Second Law of Motion by Cynthia D'Souza - De La Salle Institute
  • Tops by Sandra Tucker - Crown Fine Arts Academy
  • Periodic Motion - The Pendulum by Deborah Lojkutz - Joliet West High School
  • Inertia by Peter Insley - Retired
  • Rockets by Rochelle Ingram - Delano School
  • Weightlessness by Cynthia D'Souza - De La Salle Institute
  • Simple Machines by Bonnie Anderson - Libby School Annex
  • Vectors by Eileen Wild - Retired
  • Inertia by Maeola Walker - Chicago Board of Education
  • Torque by Larry L. Smart - Helen Hefferan Elem.School
  • Give Me Energy by April Luehmann - Zion Lutheran School
  • Newton's Third Law of Motion by John E. McCoy - Douglass Math and Science Academy
  • Pendulums by John J. Miller - Maine East High School
  • Bouncing Balls by Porter W. Johnson - Illinois Institute of Technology
  • Friction - What a Drag by John J. Miller - Maine East High School
  • Momentum Conserved by Savannah Walker - Mason School
  • Momentum And Colliding Spheres by Robert Watkins - Beethoven Elementary School
  • Straight Line Motion with a Stomper by Ann Brandon - Joliet West High School
  • Periodic Motion - The Pendulum by Deborah Lojkutz - Joliet West High School
  • Why Use Seat Belts? by Larry Brandon - Thornwood High School
  • Reaction Time by Roy Coleman - Morgan Park High School
  • Projectile Motion by Jan Dudzik - Riverside-Brookfield High School
  • Sports in Physics: Measuring Velocity in a Mini-Olympics by Marion T. Hill - Disney Magnet School
  • So You Want to Hit a Home Run? by Karlene Joseph - Walther Lutheran High School
  • Center of Gravity by Minnie E. Bounds - Dyett Middle School
  • Friction by Kathleen Cummings Dominguez - Sabin Magnet
  • Circular Motion: by Jan Dudzik - Whitney Young H.S.
  • Rolling Spheres on Inclined Planes by Kenneth Guzik - O.A. Thorp Scholastic Academy
  • Orbital Motion by Eleanor Kopsian - Franklin E. Frazier
  • Positioning the Fulcrum in Class One Levers by Janis Gary Sullivan - A. O. Sexton School
  • Action and Reaction by Mitzie Wilkins - Enrico Fermi Elementary School
  • Rotational Inertia by Corla Jean Wilson-Hawkins - Bethune Elementary School
  • Projectile Motion (or You Bet Your Grade) by Roy Coleman - Morgan Park High School
  • Physics Lab Rockets by Joseph Dogadalski - Austin Community Academy H. S.
  • Stress and Strain by Therese Donatello - Weber High School
  • Simple Machines by Susan Frazier - Fort Dearborn
  • Demonstrating The Kinds of Energy by Willie L. Gray - Adam C. Powell
  • Come Fly With Me by Karlene Kurth - Walther Lutheran High School
  • Forces and Acceleration by Marvin Orr - Lincoln-Way High School
  • Determining A Spring Constant by Fred Pannell - Luther Burbank School
  • Helicopter by Banks, Albert L. - Martin L. King High School
  • Projectile Motion by Cunningham, Mary M. - Resurrection High School
  • Newton's Laws of Motion by Harris, Wanda - Raster Main Elementary School
  • Simple Machines by Jensen, Tom - Bloom High School
  • Retrograde Motion by Katich, Rodney - Bowen High School
  • Inertia by Monegain, Louise J. - Park Manor
  • Coefficient of Rebound by Winston, Rosalyn - Walt Disney Magnet
  • Inertia by Bowen, Sheila J. - Gwendolyn Brooks Junior High
  • Pendulum Problems by Carlson, Robert - Providence Catholic H.S.
  • Sitting on Nails-Boyle's Law by Cieslik, Daniel - Mather High School
  • Newton's Third Law of Motion by McCoy, Carrol R. H. - Chicago Board of Ed.
  • Balance and Gravity by Stevenson, Mark - James H. Bowen High School
  • Friction by Tobecksen, Alan - Fenger H.S.
  • What Is Work? by Economou, Alex - Chicago Vocational H. S.
  • Oscillations by Foreman, Dorothy - Joplin School
  • Acceleration by Oldenburg, Albert - Lindblom Tech High School
  • Momentum and Energy Loss of Collisions On Various Surfaces by Rich, Loretta - South Shore High School
  • Demostrations of Law of Conservation of Linear Momentum by Tisdale, Robert W. - Percy L. Julian High School
  • Centripetual Force by Garrison, Ernest - Schurz High School
  • Flight Physics by Antoinette Rabalcaba, Loretta Rich, Renee Russell, Eric Skalinder
  • Conservation Of Momentum by Ann M.W. Brandon - Thornwood High School
  • Work, Power And Entropy by Norbert L. Zarumba - Marengo Community High School
  • The Center Of Mass by Joan C. Preer - Beasley Academic Center
  • Measuring The Gravitational Constant, G by Joel Hofslund - Kenwood Academy
  • Vectors by Albert Oldenburg - Lindblom Tech High School
  • Friction by Jim Szeszol - Mendel Catholic High School

    Fluids

  • The Bernoulli Effect - Conceptually by Earl Zwicker - Illinois Institute of Technology
  • Surface Tension by Pamela S. Moy - Morgan Park High School
  • Compared to What? Comparing the Density of Different Liquids by Camille Gales - Coles Elementary School
  • Buoyancy: What will float and what will sink by Suzzanne' O'Quinn - Phillips Alternative High School
  • Air Pressure by Brian Cagle - John W. Cook
  • Buoyant Force by Thomas J. Billups - Delano Elementary
  • Do You Sink or Float? by Jackie Baker - Crown Community Academy
  • Bernoulli Effect by Michael McIntosh - Whitney M. Young Magnet High School
  • Bubbleology Mickey Mouse Style by Paula Z. Jones - Black Magnet
  • Pressure in Fluids by Porter W Johnson - Illinois Institute of Technology
  • Surface Tension by Lisa C. Ingram - Frederick Douglass Middle Academy
  • Displacement by Thomas J. Billups - Delano Elementary
  • Sinking And Floating by Tunya Alexander - Frank L. Gillespie School
  • The Unmixables: Investigating Immiscible Liquids by Joyce Cohen - Shakespeare-Elementary School
  • Surface Tension by Amina Grant - Shakespeare
  • Viscosity by Gale Hunter - Dyett Middle School
  • Does AIR Really Exist? by Elyse Futterman - Bernard Zell Anshe Emet Day School
  • Air Pressure by Gloria Heard - Willams Carter
  • Air Pressure by Allen, George - Austin Community Academy
  • The Pressure Of A Liquid by Bradley, Patricia - John Hope Community Academy
  • Liquid Conductors by Perry, Jean M. - Oakton Elementary School
  • Liquid Pressure by Johnson, Leon - D. H. Williams Elementary School
  • Bathtub Physics - Density, Buoyancy and Flotation by Russell, Renee - South Shore High School
  • How To Make Water Run Uphill by Edgar Boyd, Dorothy Foreman and Earnest Garrison

    Electricity & Magnetism

  • Fish and Clip by Winnie Koo - Ravenswood School
  • Series and Parallel Circuits by Janet M. Sheard - West School
  • Simple Circuitry and series circuit by Stephen W. Ha - James Ward School
  • About Magnets by Barbara J. Baker - Doolittle West School
  • Magnet Muscles by Deborah Barnes - Robert H. Lawrence School
  • Electrostatics by Alyce Glauner- Community Academy
  • Electrostatics by Jan Dudzik - Riverside Brookfield High School
  • Batteries and Bulbs by Beverly Gregor - Oglesby School
  • Electromagnets by Shirley Porter-Cesair - Charles R. Henderson
  • Electromagnets by Tanya English - O'Keeffe Elementary School
  • Electrostatics by John J. Miller - Maine East High School
  • Introduction To Magnets by Sheila McKinnon - Sherman School
  • Electricity by Tanya English - O'Keeffe Elementary School
  • Electricity by Julian Levey - Teachers Acad. for Math and Science
  • Resistances In Series And Parallel Circuits by Austin E. Barnett - Bogan High School
  • Magnets, Electromagnets & Fields of Force by John J. Czerwiec - Kenwood Academy
  • Batteries And Conductors? by Lorraine Epps - Douglass Math and Science Academy
  • Introduction to Elementary Circuits by Michael D. Jackson - W.H. Carter
  • Electricity by Marie McCadd - Coles Elementary School
  • Magnets, Electromagnets, and Motors by Lynne Nolan - Naperville Central High School
  • Magnets by Hoi Huynh - Clemente Community Academy
  • Exploring Series and Parallel Circuits by Pamela Schneider - Luther East High School
  • Magnets by Mina Valenzuela - O. A. Thorp Scholastic Academy
  • Electron Current Flow by Greg Zipprich - Bloom Trail High School
  • Conductors and Insulators by Leona Williams - Cregier Vocational High School
  • Ohm's Law by Anderson, Herbert D. - Hermann Raster Elementary School
  • Electric Currents and Circuits by Williams, Claudette - Dever Elementary School
  • Magnetism by Gilmore, Marie - Raster School
  • What Is Electricity by Oldenburg, Albert - Lindblom Tech High School
  • The Millikan L'Eggs Experiment by Coleman, Roy - Morgan Park High School
  • Electrochemistry by Allen, Donna L. - Bowen High School
  • Electric and Magnetic Fields by Garrison, Earnest S. - Schurz H.S.
  • Current-Carrying Coils In Magnetic Fields by Landato, Janet - St. Viator High School
  • Coulomb's Law by Austin A.Winther - Paul Robeson High School

    Waves, Sound and Optics

  • Sound: The Vibration of Materials by Camille Gales - Coles Elementary
  • Now Hear This! by Juliette M. Walker - Crown Community Academy
  • Mixing Primary Colors by Pamela Lopez - Betsy Ross Elementary School
  • Light and Vision by Nathaniel M. Brown Jr. - Robert Fulton Elementary School
  • Polarization of Light by D. James Chichester - Lincoln-Way High School
  • Light by Winnie Koo - Ravenswood School
  • Mixing Colors With Light Beams by Angela President - Chicago Public School
  • Sound by Winnie Koo - Ravenswood School
  • Polarized Light by Scott R. Welty - Maine East High School
  • Sound by Christine Scott - Beethoven School
  • Color by Cecelia Brown - Anton Dvorak Specialty Academy
  • Sound by Kathleen Moore - O. W. Holmes
  • Lenses by Carol Bible - Carter Elementary
  • Mirror Symmetry/Mirror Images by Alan Tobecksen - Henry Clay Elementary School
  • Color by Sandra E. Broomes - Sherman
  • Light by Ozell Bonds - Ignace Paderewski School
  • Make Waves by Carol Bible - Carter Elementary
  • Homemade Instruments by Clara Williams - Douglass Math and Science Academy
  • Understanding Waves by Renee Allen - Louis Wirth Experimental
  • Making Sounds by Bettye J. Banks - Horace Mann Elementary School
  • Light - Reflection - Illusion by George Brydie - Edward White School
  • Sound by Anne Chamberlain - Bethune Elementary
  • An Awareness Of Light Made Simply Fun by Marian Hunter - Morrill Elementary School
  • Pitch by Rosalyn Winston - Walt Disney Magnet
  • Plane Mirror Images by Ann Brandon - Joliet West High School
  • Hear The Light? by Jane F Long - McAuliffe Elementary
  • Comparison of Images Formed by Plane, Cylindrical and Spherical Mirrors by Jim Szezol - Naperville High School
  • I Can See A Rainbow! by Lorraine I. Crump - Lawndale Community Academy
  • You may now enter the Holodeck. by April Luehmann - Zion Lutheran School
  • Sound by Cynthia R. Newman - Washington Elementary
  • Sound/Pitch by Joan Cwiklik - O.A. Thorp Scholastic Academy
  • Reflection Relay by Lillian Degand - Peterson Elementary
  • Wave Motion by Susan Frazier - Fort Dearborn Elementary
  • How Sound Travels by Joyce Janovec - St. Gelasius
  • Mystery of the Mirrors by Lyvonia Hearns - A. Philip Randolph
  • Light by Pennie Machnick - Dirksen School
  • Light And Color by Lillie Mae Rayborn - John D. Shoop School
  • Spherical Mirrors by Bryan, Bill - Joliet Catholic H.S.
  • Polarized Light by Springer, Ellen - Nazareth Academy
  • Colors by Schaumburg, Carl - Von Stueben MSC
  • Reflections Of by Fowler, Elva House - Cook Elementary School
  • Polarization by Hasegawa, Harry - Lawndale Community Academy
  • Waves by Johnson, Levi - James Otis
  • Guitar Waves by Kulak, Tim - Thornwood High School
  • From Vibration To Sound by Persons, Pamela - Walt Disney Magnet School
  • Comparison of Images Formed by Plane, Cylindrical and Spherical Mirrors by Springer, Ellen - Nazareth Academy
  • Alternate Theory of Color Perception by Szeszol, Jim - Naperville Central H.S.
  • Microscopes and Telescopes by Vanderjack, Karisa - Dwight D. Eisenhower H. S.
  • Optical Illusions by Boyd Edgar - F.L.Gillespie
  • Reflections With Mirrors by Rubalcaba, Antoinette - Inter-American Magnet School
  • Color Mixing by Springer, Ellen - Nazareth Academy
  • Comparison of Images Formed By Plane and Curved Mirrors by Ellen Springer, Robert Tisdale, Levi Johnson and Alex Economou
  • Laser Holography by Carol Zimmerman - Hyde Park Career Academy
  • Computer Interfacing: Frequency Measurement - The Doppler Effect by John Bozovsky - Bowen High School

    Miscellaneous

  • The Pythagorean Puzzle by Earl Zwicker - Illinois Institute of Technology - Dedicated to Prof. Harald Jensen, Lake Forest College
  • Identify And Construct A Constellation by Barbara J. Hill - Fernwood
  • Simple Machines make work easier. by Mikail A. Siddiq - Raymond School
  • Moon Phases by Kimberly Baker - Marquette East
  • Let's Outrage The Bull by Lilla E. Green - Hartigan Community Arts Specialty School
  • Building A Straw Power Tower by Lyvonia Hearns - Asa Philip Randolph
  • 10 (or more) Cheap or Free Science Tips by Roy Coleman - Morgan Park High School
  • Physics at the Zoo by Peter Insley - Retired
  • Shop projects Summer Smile Program by F. Lee Slick - Morgan Park High School/IIT Staff
  • Heat by Lynnette Millner - Robert H. Lawrence School for Math & Science
  • Measurement by Tina Hudson - Garrett A. Morgan
  • Probability by Mary J. Holder - Sherwood Elementary School
  • The Effects of Solar Energy by Jacqueline A. Davis - Anton Dvorak Specialty Academy
  • Airplanes by Sandra E. Broomes - Sherman
  • Thermal Energy Transfer - Conduction by Eileen Wild - Retired
  • Radioactive Decay Curve by Alan L. Tobecksen - Henry Clay Elementary School
  • Cooperation Blocks by Alan L. Tobecksen - Henry Clay Elementary School
  • Circles Minilab by Alan L. Tobecksen - Henry Clay Elementary School
  • Probability by L'Ouverture Perkins - William S. Carter Elementary School
  • Metric Olympic Games by Angela E. Scott - Wm. T. Sherman Elementary School
  • View Tube Triangulation by Pete Insley - Jones Metropolitan H. S.
  • Models of the Earth and the Moon by Anne Chamberlain - Bethune Elementary School
  • Paper Mache Solar System by Fe Andres Juachon - Alexander Hamilton
  • Earthquake Waves And Their Destructions by Sharione O. Mays - Donald Morrill
  • Plate Tectonics by Phyllis J. Robinson - Mount Vernon Elementary School
  • The Science of Airplane Flight by Charles Watson - William H Brown School
  • Aerodynamics by Carole Janda - O. A. Thorp Scholastic Academy
  • The Puzzle by Tom Jensen - Bloom High School
  • Kinds of Weather And What to Wear by Margaret Ann Thornton - Cardenas Elementary School
  • Heat Absorption by Marvice Box - Lawndale Community Academy
  • Radioactive Decay/Half-Life by Sallie M. Fladger - John Hope Academy
  • Weather Facts by Dorothy Parker - Beasley Academic Center
  • Using the Senses as a Means of Observation by Joe Scales - Brennemann
  • Reading a Weather Map by Robert A. Urbanek - Bloom Township H.S.
  • Vectors Via the Calculator (For Non-Math Students) by Junievicz, Alex - Gordon Tech
  • Calorimetry by Martin, Daniel - Chicago H.S. for Agricultural Sciences
  • 10Huh? by Coleman, Roy - Morgan Park High School
  • To Construct An "ALTITUDE LOCATOR" To Find Various Heights by Desai, Jyotiben - Schurz High School
  • Measurement by Johnson, Levi - James Otis Elementary
  • Using A Video Camera In the Physics Classroom by Skalinder, Eric - Francis W. Parker
  • A Potpourri of Science Ideas - Finding Pi by Group Mini Teach by Foreman, Dorothy - Joplin School
  • Computerized Problem Review by Group Teach by Donna Allen, Joytiben Desai and Albert Oldenburg
  • An Alternative Temperature Measurement by V. K. Brown - Lindbloom T. H. S.
  • Persistence Of Vision by Rudy Keil - Schurz High School

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