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Physics laboratories for homeschool under $5
Newton's Laws of Motion Discovery Stations
These 12 Newton's Laws of Motion Discovery stations will allow your students to sort out Newton’s three laws of motion for themselves!Each station is easy to set up and each one takes about 3 minutes for the students to complete. Attached are directions for the teacher, including the materials list (all materials are easy-to-come-by things like plastic cups, eggs, marbles, toy cars, washers, etc.). The only thing that you may need to look for ahead of time are two Newton spring scales and one or
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7th - 9th
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Also included in: Motion and Forces Unit | Speed Velocity Acceleration Newtons Laws Forces
Windmill Building STEM Activity
Get your students engaged with this hands on STEM Activity! Your students will be creative thinkers as they build windmills to harness the wind and investigate alternative energy sources. These activity is PERFECT for use in your classroom or a STEM open house!❤️ You will LOVE using this Windmill STEM activity because it is so SIMPLE! The bases are reusable from class to class and the students focus on building the blades. Students follow the engineering design process to design, build, and
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4th - 8th
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Newton's Laws of Motion Stations {Interactive and Fun!}
These stations will keep your students MOVING! Designed to fit in one class period, your students will build on what they have been taught in the classroom concerning Newton's Laws of Motion. This is a great way to reinforce material in your Science classroom. You can opt to use these activities as stations and simply use them as labs or activities to enhance what you already have planned in the classroom.*Now includes an answer key!This set of stations include:--Classifying activity cards of ev
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5th - 8th
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Make Multiple Vectors Fun! Pirate Treasure Hunt - Physics, Trigonometry
This is one of my student’s favorite activities. Who doesn’t want to go outside and map out some vectors? It works well in physics or trigonometry for understanding how to add and subtract multiple vectors. 10 different maps are provided for student groups to make their way from a single point of origin to a designated, X-marks-the-spot, using compass headings of N, S, E, and W and specified distances. The groups all have a different path but end up at the same place. At the end, students dr
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Measurements, Significant Figures, and Unit Conversions: Great Substitute Plan
This is a great lesson to print for your substitute if your students have reviewed basic measurements, significant figures, and unit conversions! This worksheet could serve as a good homework assignment after a measurement lab where students use graduated cylinders, triple beam balance, thermometers, and rulers. I suggest printing and copying pages 1-4 as a separate packet and pages 5-6 as a student answer sheet to be collected. It is purposely designed to be easy to grade if you choose to do
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9th - 12th
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Velocity and Acceleration Lab Activity for Middle and High School Students
Give your students practice and reinforcement over Speed, Velocity and Acceleration with this engaging lab activity. This easy set-up activity is sure to interest and engage your Physical Science students while giving them practice over calculations, graphing motion and using correct units. My students love to see Physics in action and this lab will not disappoint! Included in this activity: ★3 page student lab sheet ★Teacher instructions and material set-up ★Pictures for easy set-up You might
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6th - 12th
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Slow Can Race STEM Forces in Motion Activity/ Experiment: Creating Friction
This interactive STEM activity is always a highlight of my forces and motion unit! This activity is perfect to reinforce the concepts of forces and friction. Students need to cover or wrap a regular can in different materials to se how they affect the speed a can can travel down a ramp. Students experiment to see how friction affects motion. Set the stage by building up the idea that this is a race- THEN explain that the SLOWEST can is the winner! Students often wrap all kinds of materials
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3rd - 8th
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Newton's Laws of Motion: First Law Lab
A fun, interactive way for your students to explore Newton's First Law of Motion!
In Part One (Penny Drop), students will explain in terms of Newton’s First Law why a penny falls into a cup when a card is flicked.
In Part Two (Marble Roll), students will explain in terms of Newton’s First Law why it is hard to get a marble rolling, and get it to stop rolling, using only air and a straw.
Also includes a reflection sheet with four thought questions. Students will read each scenario and describe
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5th - 9th
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Also included in: (OVER 30% OFF) Bundle: Newton's Laws of Motion
Conservation of Energy Inquiry Lab (Phet Simulation) | Physics
This is a simple inquiry-based lab that I love to give students as an intro to Energy and Work. Students will figure out for themselves conceptual problems involving Conservation of Energy. They will get a basic idea of how Gravitational Potential Energy and Kinetic Energy work while discovering mind-blowing concepts. Lastly, the last page of the lab also gives students an opportunity to create their own skate park, which they love, and they get to learn more through creating and playing. Everyt
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
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NGSS:
HS-PS3-1
Also included in: Energy and Work Lab Bundle | Physics
Potential & Kinetic ENERGY Jumping Origami FROGS LAB
This Hands-On, Self-Directed, Action LAB--actually TWO(2) different LABS- allow students to explore the relationship between Potential and Kinetic Energy using a folded ORIGAMI FROG! This is one of my students' favorite labs, and helps them to understand how Potential Energy changes into Kinetic Energy. Students make their own Origami FROG out of an index card (copy-able plans and video link included) and then, CHALLENGE each FROG across a FROG LONG JUMP for distance! I have also included a
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6th - 8th
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Paper Airplane Lab: Gravity and Air Resistance
This activity helps demonstrate some of the unbalanced forces, namely gravity and air resistance, that affect us every day. Students should predict why paper airplanes do not stay in the air forever. After testing their paper airplane, they should create a force diagram and answer some questions regarding these unbalanced forces.
Materials needed: paper, meter stick
Main topics: unbalanced forces, gravity, air resistance (friction).
Quick, easy, and effective in demonstrating gravity and
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6th - 12th, Adult Education
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Thermal Energy Transfer- HEAT in MOTION- Chocolate CONDUCTION LAB - Editable
Learn about Thermal Energy Transfer by CONDUCTION and eat Chocolate? YES! This Hands-ON, Self-Directed, Action LAB--allows students to explore how HEAT moves by CONDUCTION using chocolate chips, aluminum foil, and a hot plate. NO OPEN FLAME! Students will use the Scientific Method to INVESTIGATE how Thermal Energy moves from a Heat Source through a Solid, using a Foil Strip folded into a "tray" and a line of chocolate chips. They will make a Hypothesis to TEST, gather Materials, follow Proce
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6th - 9th
Waves Lab-Station Activity
Engage your students with this Waves Lab (Station Activity)! This activity includes 10 lab stations that review Waves- perfect for an end of unit review or pre-lesson activity!Topics Covered:-Reflection, Refraction, Diffraction-Waves as Energy-Transverse and Compressional/Longitudinal Waves-Doppler EffectIncluded in this Purchase:-Teacher Instructions and Materials Page-10 PRINT AND GO lab station cards-Answer Key for easy gradingYou may also like these other WAVES products:⭐ Electromagnetic Spe
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5th - 11th
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Light Energy Stations or Light Energy Experiments
Light Energy Stations or Light Energy Experiments Students will love investigating light energy with these simple stations. Each of these mini investigations will take about 4 minutes. Students will be prompted to answer a simple question and/or draw what they see.Instructions and material lists are included. This is a great companion to my Energy Vocabulary PostersI ♥ Followers! All new products are 20% off for the first 24 hours after they are posted! Be the first to learn about new produc
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2nd - 6th
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Force and Motion Stations-inquiry activities for Newton's 1st law/ Inertia
6 stations of activities to introduce or help students understand Newton's 1st law, friction and inertia. Simple materials are needed and about 15 minutes of prep-work before the activity are needed. Student data sheet and expected results are included.Materials: 2 water bottles, rubber bands, string, 2 spring scales, some clay, matchbox car, pencils, textbooks, chair, rulerNow part of an awesome bundle of force lessons for only $3.95Newtons Force and Motion Laws: Notes, Inquiry Experiments and
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4th - 8th
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Balloon Car - Newton's Laws of Motion at Work - Physics Project
This lab is super inexpensive and so much fun! Students construct a “car” that runs on the power of a single balloon expelling air. Most of the materials are scavenged – water bottles, bottle caps, straws, etc. The activity takes 120 minutes including testing, data collection, and completing the lab questions for the easier version ad 150 minutes for the advanced version. This is real science with real calculations.
My files include a simple version for lower grades (calculating average vel
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4th - 12th, Adult Education
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STEM Project-Design a Slow Marble Ramp [Force and Friction Activity] Updated!
This interactive STEM project is an introduction or review of forces and friction that will get you students thinking and engaged! Students design, build, test and analyze a system of ramps for a marble to travel down slowly! Simple materials will work for this like cardboard paper towel tubes and various fabrics. You will be amazed at what students come up with! Included in this project are:Informational Reading on the friction with review questions.STEM design sheet to draw and explain their
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4th - 9th
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Scientific Method Experiment with Boats - Sink and Float, Buoyancy and Capacity
Students will follow the steps of the scientific method as they create tinfoil boats and learn about sink and float, buoyancy and capacity. This science experiment creates a hands on learning experience that is engaging and memorable for students!Click the green PREVIEW button to see more details of what is included.What is Included?Teacher InformationSample Schedule IdeasMaterials ListWhole Group ExperimentIndependent/Partner ExperimentExperiment Results (the science behind the experiment)Exper
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4th - 6th
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Newton's Laws Inquiry Lab (Phet Simulation) | Physics
This is a simple inquiry-based lab that I love to give students as an intro to Dynamics (Newton's Laws.) Students will figure out for themselves conceptual problems involving Newton's Laws. They will get the basic idea of how Newton's Laws work while discovering mind-blowing concepts. Everything is fully editable.Students will:- Learn through play- Have guided questions to direct learning- Answer questions based on Newton's Three Laws- Be a part of real-world applications for Dynamics___________
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
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HS-PS2-2
, HS-PS2-1
Also included in: Newton's Laws Lab Bundle | Physics
"Inertia Games" Lab Activity - Newton's 1st Law of Motion
Students are introduced to the concept of Newton's 1st Law of Motion and inertia by completing six (6) different challenges/games in this lab activity. Example of one of the game challenges:a. Get a plastic cup, index cards, and a quarter. b. Place the index card on top of the cup so it is centered over the opening. Put the quarter on top of the index card. c. Using your finger pull the index card out from under the quarter. You are trying to get the quarter to drop into the cup. d. Compl
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5th - 10th
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States of Matter: How are atoms arranged? Hands on reinforcement activity
States of Matter: How are atoms arranged? Hands on reinforcement activity for the 3 different states of Matter. This is an AWESOME hands on activity to help students understand how atoms are arranged in Solids, Liquids and Gasses. The activity requires a little set-up work. You need to punch holes out of 3 different colors of construction paper (the bigger the holes the better and easier) but the pay-off is worth it! there is a color in the dots version and a blank version so you can use Cheerio
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3rd - 6th
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Specific Heat (Heat Capacity) Lab Investigation:The Case of the Unknown Metal
Take your Specific Heat/Heat Capacity lab to the next level with my C.S.I. twist on a traditional lab. Using Heat Energy and Specific Heat calculations, students will determine the specific heat of an unknown metal (evidence from a crime scene) and use this calculation to solve The Case of the Unknown Metal. Included in this purchase: ⭐Editable PowerPoint presentation for students & teacher (photos included) ⭐Teacher instructions and suggestions ⭐Printable lab instructions ⭐Student Answer Sh
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6th - 12th
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NGSS:
HS-PS3-4
, MS-PS3-3
Force & Motion SPAGHETTI LAB- Balanced or Unbalanced Forces? STEM Build-IT LAB
The students will NEVER forget whether something is balanced or unbalanced after this LAB! Do this LAB individually, in Partners, or TEAMS-- but the challenge is fantastic-- build a structure with a limited number pieces of spaghetti and masking tape, in a set amount of time, that will support the weight of a textbook or other predetermined book(s). My kids always ask to repeat this LAB later in the year, and I have made sure it meets and exceeds the standards of Force & Motion--with criti
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6th - 10th
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Force and Motion STEM Marble Tracks
This STEM and Force Unit Activity Pack is perfect for your budding engineers and scientists! Have students apply what they have learned about force and motion to design marble tracks which will have a marble traveling a distance in the slowest amount of time. Students will use the engineering design process to construct a marble track and show what they know about force, friction, motion, etc. This is always a class FAVORITE!STEM: Force and Motion Kit Includes:► Teacher lesson plans► Engineering
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2nd - 4th
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