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In this activity (page 87 of the PDF), learners move their bodies to better understand the three axes of rotation: pitch, roll and yaw.

Everybody loves boomerangs! In this activity about force and motion, the learners will experiment with boomerangs and explore how they work. This is a great activity to get learners up and moving.

A design challenge that takes paper airplanes into an entirely different direction: a magnus glider uses cups and and rubber bands to create a glider that uses the same forces that a curveball (from b

In this engineering activity, learners will get acquainted with the basics of wind energy and power production by fabricating and testing various blade designs for table-top windmills constructed from

In this kinesthetic activity, learners will play a game with a ball to demonstrate the Coriolis force, which partly explains why hurricanes in the Northern Hemisphere rotate counterclockwise.

Build a pinwheel that works without wind! This activity contains steps on how to build a parachuting pinwheel out of paper, a film canister, and some brads.

Learn about friction and kinetic energy with this cool spinning toy.

In this engineering activity, learners examine bicycle mechanics and gear ratios. Learners determine which gears will help them bike a set course in the shortest amount of time.

This is an activity about motion, power, air and Newton’s Third Law of Motion, which states that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.

In this meteorology activity, learners build weather vanes using straws, paperclips, and cardstock.

In this activity, learners will measure the length of their shadow from the Sun and compare it three to four months later.

In this activity, learners will measure the length of a shadow and use the distance from the equator to calculate the circumference of the earth.

In this meteorology activity, learners construct simple devices to measure the direction and speed of wind.

In this activity, learners explore how anemometers work to record wind speeds and how the equipment has undergone engineering adaptations over time.