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2 days. Hands-on activity using the actual path of light through your container of water.
This activity has been modified from Real World Learning Objects, Internet-based Activities for Higher Education. The need to access an online calculator has been removed.

The purpose of this lab is to investigate motion, and the use of the equation $d=rt$.

Using regular soda cans and their cardboard containers, students will calculate volume and surface area.
Hands-on activity. The purpose is to help students learn to use variables and to write equations to model a problem situation.
Hands-on activity. Plotting points, writing linear functions algebraically, relating slope and $y$-intercept to context. Compares value of coins in different piles.
The second part of the Money Investigation activities.
A hands-on activity to help students understand four basic binary operations in algebraic expressions, solving linear equations in one variable, and solving a formula for an indicated variable, us
Students learn to develop the equation for a line. The emphasis is on the significance of the slope and the $y$-intercept.
Students use the internet to research values relevant to projectile motion such as acceleration due to gravity and the height of objects.