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Bring physics concepts to life with projects that involve experimentation and observation. This collection includes studies of motion, energy transformations, and force interactions. By integrating these physics projects into your teaching, you can inspire curiosity and deepen comprehension of natural laws.
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Aluminum Foil Boat STEM Challenge for High School Students. My Aluminum Foil Boat Challenge is an excellent way to get your students' excited for STEM in an engaging hands-on way.
A hands-on engineering design-challenge activity in which students brainstorm and design a new amusement park ride.
Balloon-Powered Rocket STEM Challenge for High School Students. My Balloon-Powered Rocket Challenge is an excellent way to get your students' excited for STEM in an engaging hands-on way.
Balloon-Powered Rocket STEM Challenge for High School Students. My Balloon-Powered Rocket Challenge is an excellent way to get your students' excited for STEM in an engaging hands-on way.
The Bridge Design Challenge The Bridge Design Challenge is an engaging educational resource primarily meant for educators and homeschoolers. This interactive tool aims at teaching the concept of Physical Science with a hint of fun.
Foil Boats Design Challenge Design and test an aluminum foil boat that can hold as many coins as possible WhyMakers Design Challenges come READY to use.
A two-part electricity unit: Part I is direct-instruction notes and 7-9 worksheets/assignments on electricity fundamentals; Part II is a role-play class project where students debate which type of power plant a fictional town should build.
Incorporate Real World Engineering & Discovery into Your Science Classroom with a Comprehensive Simple Machines STEM Unit. Tired of trying to teach students about abstract concepts like force, work, and mechanical advantage in physics…
A six-part STEM design project that has students apply circuit knowledge (open, closed, parallel, series) and algebra to design, cost out, and present a working simple machine or toy powered by batteries.
The "History of Flight" Teaching Resource This is an enlightening resource crafted for educators looking to bolster their curriculum with science-based content.
Leonardo da Vinci: Inventions Mini Unit is a 12-page download that will teach your readers about da Vinci and his relationship with inventions. A word search and student activity are included.
A set of three hands-on preschool science activities introducing sound/vibration, weather observation and tracking, and static electricity through play-based experiments and crafts.
A design-and-build STEM activity where students plan, construct, and test a kite while thinking about the forces (gravity and lift/push) involved in flight.
A multi-chapter STEM curriculum pack teaching the physics and engineering behind renewable energy technologies (solar, wind, hydro/ocean, and likely more) so students can approach energy design challenges like engineers.
Introducing The Bio-Design Blueprint! This gamified micro-learning curriculum is an entirely online series of adventures that will give students an interactive experience using the 3.8 billion-year-old R&D of nature to design solutions to…
A project-based-learning physics activity in which students use banked-curve physics (centripetal acceleration, free body diagrams) to resolve a fictional legal case about a highway accident.
Conservation of Energy Culminating PBL: An Enriching Resource for Physics Students Conservation of Energy Culminating PBL is an immersive resource that drives high school physics students to explore the crucial concept of Conservation of…
Craft Stick Dome STEM Challenge for High School Students. My Craft Stick Dome Challenge is an excellent way to get your students' excited for STEM in an engaging hands-on way.
Craft Stick Dome STEM Challenge for High School Students. My Craft Stick Dome Challenge is an excellent way to get your students' excited for STEM in an engaging hands-on way.
A hands-on STEM engineering design challenge in which student groups build a device from limited materials to protect a raw egg from breaking when dropped, then reflect on and extend the engineering/physics concepts involved.
A hands-on STEM engineering design challenge in which student groups build a device from limited materials to protect a raw egg from breaking when dropped, then reflect on and extend the engineering/physics concepts involved.
Marshmallow Catapult STEM Challenge for Middle School Students. My Marshmallow Catapult Challenge is an excellent way to get your students' excited for STEM in an engaging hands-on way.
Marshmallow Catapult STEM Challenge for High School Students. My Marshmallow Catapult Challenge is an excellent way to get your students' excited for STEM in an engaging hands-on way.
Musical Instrument Design Challenge This innovative teaching resource has been carefully crafted to engage the creative minds of students.