Content: Pixton - Reindeer Flight School

This comic strip gives some introductory material about projectile motion to Santa's reindeer in training.

Content: Glog- Santa's Fun with Objects in Motion

This Glog gives a brief overview of motion in general, helping to describe the development of projectile motion at an angle.

Santa's Fun with Objects in Motion

Fun Game with Santa as a Projectile

Just for kicks. A little game concerning Santa and projectile motion. Click anywhere on the screen to start the elves running. Then, click on catapult to pull back Santa and release to launch.  The goal is to achieve the greatest distance that is possible.

Projectile Santa

Attributions: http://69.93.193.34/~egg1com/Games-D5-140406/slingshot_santa.swf

Content: Blabber- Santa and Rudolph discuss projectile motion

In this Blabber, Santa and Rudolph are discussing the concepts of projectile motion after Rudolph's 1st day in Reindeer Flight School. I have tagged on something on the end just for fun. Have a good time!!!

Part 1 of 3 Blabbers of Projectile Motion

       


Part 2 of 3 Blabbers of Projectile Motion

            


Part 3 of 3 Blabbers of Projectile Motion

           


Just for Fun!!! We Wish You A Merry Christmas


       


Attributions:
Reindeer-Rudolph: http://blogs.nationalgeographic.com/blogs/intelligenttravel/2008/01/the-running-of-the-reindeer.html
Santa: http://www.squidoo.com/write-a-letter-to-santa-claus
Reindeer-Dancer: http://blather.net/abroad/archives/2007/07/barren_ground_caribou_wild_reindeer_denali_nationa.html
Singers:  http://www.nyca.org/victoriancarolers.htm
We Wish You A Merry Christmas: iTunes - Mormon Tabernacle Choir

Content: The Night Before Christmas - Physics Style

In this Glog, you will see a remix of the poem "The Night Before Christmas" in a physics point of view.  The equations in the ornaments to the side of the poem are equations used when working with objects in projectile motion at an angle above the horizontal.  The "Finding Components" equations discuss how the find the x and y components of a velocity if the have the resultant velocity.  The second set of equations named "Position Components" discusses how to find the range and height of a projectile if you have the time and the original component velocities.  The last set of equations named "Velocity Components" discusses how to find the component velocities of an object at any point in time if you have the original velocities and time.

Content: Glog: The Night Before Christmas Physics Style

Content: Projectile Motion- Santa's Knowledge

The fact that Santa knows the acceleration due to gravity of objects on earth (9.8m/s/s, down) is crucial in understanding and being able to use the equations in projectile motion.

Attributions:
Falling reindeer picture: http://www.myspace.com/82335731

Wordle: Feeling like a Mega Physics wordle has to be made

Here is another try at a Wordle that is entitled "Everything Learned in the First Trimester": Physics Skills, Kinematics in one and two dimensions and a thouch of Dynamics (I have make it large so you can see everything. :) )