Search Results

Each group of learners uses everyday materials, such as paper, toothpicks, and tape to design and construct a structure intended to support the weight of a cinder block for 30 seconds.

Learners build structures from spaghetti and marshmallows to determine which structures are able to handle the greatest load.

In this activity, learners create a tiny electric, motorized dancer. Learners use the interactions of magnetism and electric current to make a wire spin, while displaying the Lorentz Force in action.

In this physics activity, challenge learners to make a rubber band-powered spool racer. Demonstrate principles of motion as well as potential and kinetic energy.

In this challenge, learners make a helium balloon hover in one spot and then move it through an obstacle course using air currents.

Get all wrapped up in a lesson about skin!

In this activity, learners build their own construction cranes using tongue depressors and pushpins.

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

In this activity, learners construct cars that are powered by hand-made, electric propellers.

This is an online Flash game where learners can experiment with ballistics and how to compensate for the varying levels of gravity found on the planets of our Solar System.

In this activity, learners string a line across the room and build cable cars that can move from on end to the other.

In this activity, learners simulate Otto von Guericke's famous Magdeburg Hemispheres experiment.

In this physics activity, challenge learners to make a race-car out of a coffee can and rubber band. Demonstrate motion, forces, kinetic and potential energy and friction.

Experiment with force and pressure by building a balloon rocket. When launched, the balloon will run a track wherever you place the string.

Learners design and build a roller coaster using simple materials. Learners experiment with potential and kinetic energy to get a marble to follow a track into a cup.