This activity is a lab investigation where students design a balloon car to collect data about speed and velocity.
This activity is an extension of the common balloon cars, where students explore if and how different gases used as a fuel source effect the distances traveled by the cars.
This activity enables students to apply concepts of 'newton's laws of motion' that are learned in class to a realworld situation by having them create a car powered by a deflating balloon that travels as far as possible.
This activity is a hands-on investigation that teaches students that air resitance affects how things move and that pressure from compressed air can move things.
In this structured inquiry activity students will work in groups/ teams to build a balloon rocket of their own design. The rocket will race in one dimension and require that they apply their knowledge of position, time, and velocity.
This activity is a scientific investigation focusing on inquiry after using the Foss Water Kit. The students will pose a question, create a procedure and produce a poster showing their findings.
This is a three-part project spanning five weeks that uniquely interweaves individual and cooperative learning in the context of health care reform and the 2008 United States presidential campaign.
This is an activity that involves students modeling the behavior and competition that Charles Darwin's finches would have gone through as they competed for food and space on the Galapagos Islands. Some will survive. Some won't.
This activity will allow students to see light bending. The students will be able to calculate the amount of bend or refraction that occurs with various mediums.
Demonstrate Bernoulli's Principle using balloons and and pop cans. Real world concept of lift can be applied to an airplane demonstration.
This activity is designed to help students understand the structures and functions of the cell by building a model.
This activity is an introduction to the study of birds. Students will gain observation and classification skills.
This activity is a field investigation of the bird population in the schoolyard and how the students will plan to attract more birds.
A 90 minute laboratory experiment utilizing observations and reasoning regarding the Law of Conservation of Matter and Energy.
This guided inquiry activity, in which ice is used to boil water in a Florence flask, works well in the introductory class to a chemistry or physical science course. The students will learn the difference between observation and inference and apply this understanding to various other situations in which observations and inferences must be made. The students will also use outside sources to try to explain why the activity worked.
Students investigate whether a bowling ball will float or sink in an aquarium of water after measuring the ball and determining the density. This is meant to be an investigative inquiry of the concepts of density and significant figures.
Students investigate whether a bowling ball will float or sink in an aquarium of water after measuring the ball and determining the density. This is meant to be an investigative inquiry of the concepts of density and significant figures.
This is an activity where students watch what happens to marshmallows under pressure and relate it to Boyle's law.
Activity to help students differentiate how disciplines focus on a problem.
This activity s a student project to construct and test the load bearing capacity of a scale model bridge from toothpicks.