Free Fall and the Acceleration of Gravity

The Free Fall Toolkit provides teachers with standards-based resources for designing lesson plans and units that pertain to concepts of and relationships associated with the concept and mathematics of free fall and the acceleration of gravity. The pictoral, graphical, numerical and formulaic treatment of free fall is addressed by the variety of resources described in this teacher Toolkit. The Toolkit is supported by Lesson 5 of the Kinematics Chapter at The Physics Classroom Tutorial.


Each toolkit can be viewed in three different ways.

1. Free Fall - HTML Version of Complete Toolkit

   The HTML version of the complete toolkit contains all the resources with full descriptions and links to their location on the web. The complete toolkit also includes learning objectives and references the pertinent standards addressed by the resources.
    

2. Free Fall - PDF Version of Complete Toolkit

   The PDF version of the complete toolkit contains all the resources with full descriptions in a printer-friendly format. Learning objectives and relevant standards are also included in the PDF Version of the complete toolkit.
    

3. Free Fall - Toolkit To Go

   The Toolkit To Go is a 2-page PDF document that provides an abbreviated version of the complete toolkit. It contains as much information as could fit on two pages. Toolkits to Go can be photo-copied back-to-back, hole-punched, and filed in a teacher's folder or three-ring binder for future reference.