Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Clearing All Obstacles

Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson has students modeling a mock food fight using projectile motion. This lesson is very technology-intensive, and a CBR2 is used to measure the velocity of an object so that it's horizontal and vertical components can be determined. Following this, students will create a quadratic equation to model their object, and then perform a class activity in which they must pass a paper ball to a classmate (with a couple of students in the way, of course!)