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Pop Fly
WGBHAdd to list DetailsIn this design challenge activity, learners invent a way to send a Ping-Pong ball flying high enough to catch it - like football with a twist! Learners use paint stirrers, a wooden spool, tape, and...
Paper Airplane Contest
COSIAdd to list DetailsIn this fun physics activity (page 9 of the pdf), learners take part in a paper airplane design challenge. They can be encouraged to try out different designs and discuss the best ones and why they...
FlyBy Math: Distance-Rate-Time Problems in Air Traffic Control
NASAAdd to list DetailsIn this small-group activity, learners assume the roles of pilots, air traffic controllers, and NASA scientists to solve five Air Traffic Control (ATC) problems. Learners examine different distance...
Homemade Rube Goldberg Machine
COSIAdd to list DetailsIn this fun and, at times, hilarious force and motion activity, learners will use household objects to build a crazy contraption and see how far they can get a tennis ball to move. This is an...
My Solar System
PhETAdd to list DetailsIn this online activity, learners build their own system of heavenly bodies and watch the gravitational ballet. With this orbit simulator, learners can set initial positions, velocities, and masses...
Action-Reaction Rocket!
Integrated Teaching and Learning Program, College of Engineering, University of Colorado at BoulderAdd to list DetailsLearners construct a rocket from a balloon propelled along a guide string. They use this model to learn about Newton's three laws of motion, examining the effect of different forces on the...
Watch It Fly
American Physical SocietyAdd to list DetailsLearners observe projectile motion by launching wooden balls off of a table top. They set up a rubber-band launcher so that each ball experiences a consistent amount of force. Learners vary the...
Physics Tug of War
Integrated Teaching and Learning Program, College of Engineering, University of Colorado at BoulderAdd to list DetailsLearners set up books with rubber bands stretched between the books. When two identical books are stretched apart and released, they move back toward each other an equal distance. When two...
No-Slip Grip
Twin Cities Public TelevisionAdd to list DetailsIn this physical sciences activity, learners explore friction. Learners investigate the factors that affect the force required to move an object. Learners prepare weighted shoeboxes and then...
Crank It Up
Twin Cities Public TelevisionAdd to list DetailsIn this engineering activity, learners explore simple machines and then build cardboard automata using cams. Learners are also challenged to build a complex machine--a moving sculpture that tells a...