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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 **

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 * 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

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 * Mechanics**
 * Gravity Lesson by Leticia Rodriguez - Ferdinand W. Peck
 * [[image:http://mypages.iit.edu/~smile/WEBLOGO2.GIF align="middle" link="@http://mypages.iit.edu/~smile/phma1400.htm"]] 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

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 * 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

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 * 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

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 * 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

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 * 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