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Teaching Physics with Toys

Dwight Portman and Beverley Taylor

Your students have inquiring minds- Help them to discover physics! The first edition of Teaching Physics with TOYS brought fun and learning to thousands of classrooms. Now, the completely revised Teaching Physics with TOYS-EASYGuide Edition provides new activities in collaboration with K'NEX® Education, along with many new features to guide and support science inquiry in your classroom. • 22 hands-on investigations for grades 3-9 make physics principles fun and easy to teach! Students use common toys to explore inertia, kinetic energy, laws of motion, and many more physics principles. • Simple step-by-step teaching notes and online access to reproducible and customizable student pages save you time preparing and teaching lessons. • K'NEX pieces - used to build assorted levers and pulley systems, balances,crank fans, tops, cars, and more - are a fun and economical alternative to single-use equipment. • Connections to National Science Education Standards are detailed for each activity.

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