Example Lessons and Activities

Lessons and activities from CORD's contextual physics courses are provided below with access to download lessons using Adobe Acrobat.

Please visit the  Learning in Context  website for more Physics resources.

Each example is connected to one of the five elements of the REACT strategy for implementing contextual teaching practices in the classroom.

The examples on this site are available in print from  CORD Communications . Call 800-231-3015 for ordering information.

CORD PRINCIPLES OF TECHNOLOGY (PT)

RELATING
Automobile collisions and golf relate to a change in momentum. Download now.

Five-mile-per-hour bumpers relate the ideas of impulse and change of momentum. Download now.

Forces caused by fluids turning a corner in a pipe can be analyzed with vectors. Download now.

Fluids moving around sharp pipe bends undergo changes in momentum that result in forces on the pipe. Download now.

EXPERIENCING
Students can measure air resistance through a filter. Download now.

APPLYING
Students apply physics equations to industrial uses. Download now.

COOPERATING
Students can view a conveyor-belt apparatus. Download now.

TRANSFERRING
Students transfer knowledge of bicycle chains to work with mechanical force transformers in the laboratory. Download now.