Students work in teams to design a container for an egg using provided materials. Students drop their containers, then analyze factors which can minimize force on the egg.
Optionally, students can complete a second round of the experiment if time permits. Students work in teams to design a container for an egg using provided materials.
Environmental Science, Physical Science, Physics, Life Science, Earth Science,
UE.ESS1B.a, MS.ESS1A.a,
Overview: Have you ever built a sandcastle on a beach only to find it washed away a few hours later? Every 6 to 12 hours or so, the water along most coasts rises and falls in.
Overview: Student teams investigate the properties of electromagnets. They create their own small electromagnets and experiment with ways to change their strength to pick up.
Overview: How can the age of a tree be determined? Is there a way to tell a good year of growth versus a bad year? Trees contain some of nature’s most accurate records of.
Environmental Science, Physical Science, Physics, Life Science, Earth Science,
UE.ESS1B.a, UE.PS1A.c,
Overview: In this activity, students will explore what affects the size of a shadow and compare the shadows of various opaque, transparent, and translucent objects. Part I.
Environmental Science, Physical Science, Physics, Life Science, Earth Science,
UE.ETS1B.c, UE.ETS1C.a, UE.ETS1B.b, UE.ETS1B.a,
Overview: In this hands-on activity, students investigate different methods—aeration and filtering—for removing pollutants from water. Working in teams, they design.
Overview: Have you ever noticed on a rainy day how water forms droplets on a window? Why doesn’t it spread out evenly over the whole surface? It has to do with.
Environmental Science, Physical Science, Physics, Life Science, Earth Science,
MS.ESS1B.a, MS.PS2B.b,
Overview: Why can we feel gravity pull us down towards the Earth, but not sideways towards other big objects like buildings? Why do the planets in our solar system orbit the.
Environmental Science, Physical Science, Physics, Life Science, Earth Science,
MS.ETS1B.a, MS.ETS1C.a, UE.ESS3B.a,
Overview: Students explore the impact of changing river volumes and different floodplain terrain in experimental trials with table top-sized riverbed models. The models are.
Environmental Science, Physical Science, Physics, Life Science, Earth Science,
UE.ETS1B.b, UE.ETS1B.a, UE.PS3D.a, UE.PS3B.c, UE.ETS1A.a,
Overview: Students observe a model waterwheel to investigate the transformations of energy involved in turning the blades of a hydro-turbine. They work as engineers to create.
Environmental Science, Physical Science, Physics, Life Science, Earth Science,
MS.EVS1B.a, MS.LS2C.b, UE.ESS3C.a, LE.ESS3C.a,
Demonstrate the challenges for marine animals who get entangled in common debris with this 10 –15 minute activity about marine conservation. Pair this activity with a.
Stretch your way into different animal movements and poses to learn how they move, get food, and protect themselves. This 5-10 minute full-body activity for young learners.
Environmental Science, Physical Science, Physics, Life Science, Earth Science,
UE.LS2A.c, MS.LS2B.c, MS.LS2B.a, UE.LS2A.b, UE.LS2A.a,
Overview: In this hands-on activity, students construct a food web with yarn to learn how food chains are interconnected. Objectives: 1. construct a food chain and explain.
Overview: In this simulation game, students learn about adaptive advantage, based on beak function, by simulating birds competing for various foods. Birds equipped with.
Environmental Science, Physical Science, Physics, Life Science, Earth Science,
MS.ESS1B.b, MS.ESS1A.a,
This hands-on activity demonstrates and explains how seasons is caused by the tilt of Earth on its axis as it orbits around the sun. Students model the seasons with their.
Environmental Science, Physical Science, Physics, Life Science, Earth Science,
HS.PS3A.b, MS.PS3B.a, MS.PS3A.a, MS.PS2A.b, HS.PS2A.a,
Ready, Set, Go! A ring and disc of equal mass and diameter speed down an inclined plane. Which one wins? Not an easy prediction to make, but the victor will be clear. Results.
Environmental Science, Physical Science, Physics, Life Science, Earth Science,
HS.PS3A.b, HS.PS3B.a, HS.PS3A.a, MS.PS3B.a, MS.PS3B.b,
This is one of the most impressive demonstrations of the heat produced when a gas is rapidly compressed and is the principle behind how a diesel engine functions. How does it.
Environmental Science, Physical Science, Physics, Life Science, Earth Science,
MS.ETS1B.a, MS.ETS1A.a, MS.ETS1C.a, HS.LS1A.b, HS.ETS1B.a,
This STEM activity incorporates the engineering design process into a life or biomedical science activity. It can be used during an anatomy unit or in a health.
Environmental Science, Physical Science, Physics, Life Science, Earth Science,
MS.ESS1B.b, MS.ESS1A.a,
This lesson on the phases of the moon features just one of several hands-on activities you can do with our adaptable Moon Model Kit. In this activity students will: 1. use.
This exciting experiment illustrates transpiration, the process of plants absorbing water through their roots. The water travels up tubes in the stems called xylem to all.
Try out 10 exciting activities related to the properties of matter using our Magnetic Water Molecules Kit! The following topics are covered: Polarity Hydrogen.
Overview Realistically simulate blood typing without the hazards of real blood. Using actual blood typing procedures, students classify four unknown samples of the simulated.
Overview With this worksheet, students will explore one of the five mechanisms of evolution: natural selection. Students will analyze and interpret 3 models of natural.
Explore the immunological principle that antibodies bind to specific antigens. Your class will learn how ELISA – Enzyme Linked Immunoassay – is a fundamental.
Environmental Science, Physical Science, Physics, Life Science, Earth Science,
UE.PS2A.b, MS.PS2A.b, UE.ESS2A.b,
Overview: In this classic demonstration, students will use differences in air pressure to force an egg into a bottle. This demonstration only takes 10 minutes and leaves your.
Teach the mechanisms of meiosis (and make it memorable!) with this simple and informative magnetic demonstration. Instead of struggling to tell which chromosome is which from.
Overview Using a set of Food Web cards, each depicting an organism, students work in groups to model a food web for one of four ecosystems. Students are then given an.
Overview Immerse your students in this engaging 3-part laboratory activity on evolution by natural selection! Your students will practice important science skills while.
Background The size of an animal population becomes newsworthy when it becomes very large (too many rats in one place) or very small (on the verge of extinction). How do.
Background Have you ever seen butterflies fluttering around outside, gliding through the air and landing on flowers? While they are delicate and fragile, butterflies are.
This lab allows you to learn about two forms of passive transport: diffusion and osmosis. You will compare and contrast similarities and differences in the processes of.
This laboratory activity will familiarize students with basic plant anatomy and the basic characteristics and functions of plant seeds. Students will practice using.
This lesson is the first unit of a 5 part module entitled “Genetics: The Science of Heredity” developed by ETA Cuisenaire. Modeling DNA structure and the process.
Innovating Science’s crime scene investigation lab is used to study forensic techniques and features an activity to solve the crime of the missing frogs from the.
This lesson deepens students’ understanding of how and why we measure precipitation across the globe through the study of rainfall patterns caused by hurricanes. Students.
The action in this fast-paced activity may become intense as student “predators” attempt to capture their “prey.” What happens when different organisms, living in the.
In this activity, students test representative food samples for the presence of certain types of matter (nutrients). This investigation allows students to discover some of.
Forget drinking your juice. Instead, try snacking on it! Use the steps and recipes in this food science project to transform drinks into semi-solid balls that pop in your.
“Plastic made from milk” —that certainly sounds like something made-up. If you agree, you may be surprised to learn that in the early 20th century, milk was.
People used to believe that disease was caused by miasma, a poisonous vapor which carried particles of rotting materials that caused illness. People knew that eating spoiled.
People used to think that angry gods caused disease, or that a poisonous vapor that came from rotting food or bad air caused illness. It took thousands of years for people to.
A set of activities to show how the generator works and the principles behind it.
How does the energy content in lipids and carbohydrates differ? Energy content is the amount of heat produced by the burning of a small sample of a substance and heating.
This fun, hands-on introductory dissection is a great springboard for teaching the techniques of using a science notebook while having students engage in the.
Environmental Science, Physical Science, Physics, Life Science, Earth Science,
UE.ETS1B.c, UE.ETS1C.a, UE.ESS2E.a, UE.ESS2A.a,
Overview: Students learn about water erosion through an experimental process in which small-scale buildings are placed along a simulated riverbank to experience a range of.
The goal of this experiment is to demonstrate that boiling is not just a function of temperature, as most people believe. Rather, it is a function of both temperature and.
Plan and carry out investigations: collaboratively, in a safe and ethical manner including personal impacts such as health safety, to produce data to serve as the basis.
Students work individually or in pairs to follow a set of instructions and construct a mini generator which powers a Christmas light. Best done as a take-home assignment.
Teacher leads a demonstration with vernier carts of different/equal mass, equipped with bumpers and magnets to demonstrate a variety of scenarios in which as both carts.
After learning about the 1st law of motion, students partake in a teacher-led series of questions about 2 carts, and which cart will experience a greater force. The teacher.
In 2-3 person groups, students take the mass of assorted objects, then hang them from a spring scale to find their gravitational force. Using the F=ma equation, they rewrite.
Environmental Science, Physical Science, Physics, Life Science, Earth Science,
HS.ETS1A.a, HS.PS2A.c,
Students work in teams to design a container for an egg using provided materials. Students drop their containers, then analyze factors which can minimize force on the.
Environmental Science, Physical Science, Physics, Life Science, Earth Science,
HS.ETS1C.a, HS.PS2A.c,
Students watch a series of short videos explaining how cars are designed with crumple zones, airbags, and automatic braking to prevent passenger damage in a collision.
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