UPC Science: The Real Prize Inside ` - Jul 10, 2022

Promote understanding of scientific inquiry as students analyze patterns in UPC barcodes to figure out their "language".

Navigational Vectors ` - Jul 10, 2022

This unique and highly engaging project provides opportunities for students to apply understanding of vectors as they learn airplane navigation by tracking airplanes flying in U.S. skies.

Magnet Man: Cool Experiments with Magnets ` - Jul 10, 2022

Lesson plans on this site builds magnetic concepts with video and hands-on activities.

Teach Engineering: Energy of Motion ` - Nov 11, 2021

Multi-day unit for middle school explores kinetic and potential energy through waterwheels, roller coasters, bouncing balls, and a pendulum.

NBC Learn: Science of NFL Football ` - Nov 11, 2021

Set of 10 videos to explore the science behind professional football. Addresses Newton's Laws, momentum and its conservation, Law of Inertia, vectors, center of mass, projectile motion, and more.

Physics Teaching Technology Resource: Learning Cycles on Motion ` - Aug 20, 2021

This learning cycle features 19 videotaped experiments, organized sequentially for introducing fundamentals of motion in introductory physics courses. Each video includes learning goal, prior information needed to understand the material, and elicitation questions. Topics include constant velocity, constant acceleration, falling objects, projectiles, and the physics of juggling.

NASA Engineering Design Challenges: Spacecraft Structures ` - Apr 12, 2021

This NASA-sponsored design challenge would be a great choice for a summer camp learning experience.

Teach Engineering: Designing a Spectroscopy Mission ` - Mar 16, 2020

As part of ground- and space-based missions, engineers design spectrographs and other amazing equipment to study our universe. This lab for high school physics lets students develop ground or space-based missions to accommodate their own spectrograph designs.

Eclipse Science: Modeling Eclipses in the Solar System ` - Mar 15, 2019

Blend physics and Earth/Space science to build a physical model that explores the geometry of eclipse events. Appropriate for Grades 6-10.

CIESE Real Time Data Projects: Tsunami Surge ` - May 3, 2018

Cross disciplinary resource blends physics, earth science, and global history to get students excited about the science of tsunamis. Use real-time data to see how various global agencies monitor for tsunami activity, then develop your own "preparedness plan".