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Physical Science Lesson Plans

Physical Science Lesson Plans


Physical Science Lesson Plans

Elementary

 icon Air Pressure

 icon Altitude Tracking

 iconAntacid Tablet Race

 icon Balloon Staging - Rocket Staging

 icon Balloons - Why Are They Stretchy?

 icon Battery Life

 icon Bicycles - How Do a Bike and Its Rider Stay Up?

 iconCar Engines

 iconColored Shadows - Using Lights to Mix Colors

 icon Domed Stadiums - What Keeps Inflated Stadiums Up?

 icon Engineering Toothpaste

 iconFinger Boomerangs

 icon Fish Tank Optics

 icon Flying Tube

 icon Flying Wing

 icon Four-Wing Paper Boomerang

 icon Glass Blowing

 icon Gliders

 icon Guess What?! (a lesson about atoms)

 iconHollywood Stunts

 icon How Can I Control the Soccer Ball?

 icon Ice Energy & Making Ice Cream

 icon In-Line Skating - Do In-Line Skates Really Go Faster than Roller Skates?

 icon Lemon Power

 icon Liquid Bottle Rocket

 icon Liquid Nitrogen Fun!

 icon Making a Shoe-Box Guitar

 icon Making a Steam-Powered "Rocket Boat"

 icon Making a Water Lens

 icon Making Paper Airplane Gliders

 icon Maple-Seed Helicopters

 icon Match Stick Rocket

 icon McEagle Styrofoam Glider

 iconMusical Tube

 icon NASA Robots

 icon Newton Car

 icon Paper Clip Sailing

 icon Paper Rockets

 icon Peanut Power

 icon Pencil Rockets

 icon Ping Pong Ball Curves

 icon Pizza Box Solar Oven

 icon Positively Paper

 icon Robots

 icon Rocket Car

 icon Rocket Pinwheel

 icon Science Safari: Energy Resources

 icon Scuba Diving

 icon Sewer Science - Where Does Sewage Go?

 icon Sounds Like Science - Bottle Organ

 icon Sounds Like Science - Drums

 icon Sounds Like Science - Guitars

 icon Sounds Like Science - Jamboree

 icon Sounds Like Science - Kazoos

 icon Splitting Water - H2O Hydrolysis

 icon The Hidden Jewels of Geometry

 icon Using Bubbles to Learn about Light Interference

 icon Water Energy

 icon Where's the Air?

 icon Wooden Helicopter

Middle School

 icon Air Bags and Collisions - How Do Airbags Prevent Automobile Injuries?

 icon Air Pressure

 icon Air Pressure - What is Air Pressure and How Can It Be Measured?

 icon Aircraft Fire Rescue - How Does a Firefighter Put Out an Airplane Fire?

 icon Altitude Tracking

 icon Airfoil Experiment 1

 icon Antacid Tablet Race

 icon Balloon Staging - Rocket Staging

 icon Balloons - Why Are They Stretchy?

 icon Battery Life

 icon Bicycles - How Do a Bike and Its Rider Stay Up?

 icon Car Engines

 icon Circus High Wire - How Do Tightrope Walkers Keep Their Balance?

 icon Colored Shadows - Using Lights to Mix Colors

 icon Cryogenics - Science - Fact or Science Fiction?

 icon Demonstrating Dew and Frost

 icon Domed Stadiums - What Keeps Inflated Stadiums Up?

 icon The Dry Compass Experiment

 icon Finger Boomerangs

 icon Fish Tank Optics

 icon Flying Tube

 icon Flying Wing

 icon Four-Wing Paper Boomerang

 icon Frisbee Physics - How Does Physics Play a Role in Frisbee Flying?

 icon Glass Blowing

 icon Hollywood Stunts

 icon How a Plane Is Controlled

 icon How Can I Control the Soccer Ball?

 icon How Do Clocks Keep Time?

 icon Human Slingshot Ride - How Does the "Ejector Seat" Ride Work?

 icon Hypercoaster - How Do You Know a Roller Coaster Is Safe?

 icon Ice Surfers - How Do They Go So Fast?

 icon In-Line Skating - Do In-Line Skates Really Go Faster than Roller Skates?

 icon Inca Engineering - How Did the Incas Build Without Mortar or Wheels?

 icon Lemon Power

 icon Liquid Bottle Rocket

 icon Liquid Nitrogen Fun!

 icon Locks and Dams - How Do a Lock and Dam make an Unnavigable Part of a Waterway Navigable?

 icon Luge - How Do Engineering and Technology Play a role in the Olympics?

 icon Making a Barometer

 icon Making a Hair Hygrometer

 icon Making an Air Thermometer

 icon Making a Weather Vane

 icon Making a Wind Anemometer

 icon Making a Wind Sock

 icon Making a Wind Vane

 icon Making Paper Airplane Gliders

 icon Making a Steam-Powered "Rocket Boat"

 icon "Maple Seed" Helicopters

 icon Match Stick Rocket

 icon McEagle Styrofoam Glider

 icon Musical Tube

 icon Newton Car

 icon Mummies - How Are Mummies Able to "Survive" the Tests of Time?

 icon Paper Rockets

 icon Peanut Power

 iconPencil Rockets

 icon Ping Pong Ball Curves

 icon Playing with Polymers

 icon Propeller Experiment 4

 icon Propeller Experiment 5

 icon Riverboats - How Does Steam Power Big Machinery

 icon Robots

 icon Rock Climbing - How Can the Human Body Stick to a Sheer Cliff?

 icon Rocket Car

 icon Rocket Pinwheel

 icon Science Safari: Energy Resources

 icon Scuba Diving

 icon Sewer Science - Where Does Sewage Go?

 icon Ski Jumping - How Do Ski Jumpers Go So Far?

 icon Slinky Physics - How Do Toys Work?

 icon Soda Pop Can Hero Engine

 icon Splitting Water - H2O Hydrolysis

 icon Telecommunications - New Frontiers in Electronic Communications

 icon Using Bubbles to Learn about Light Interference

 icon Waterskiing - How Do Water Skis Stay Up?

 icon The Wet Compass Experiment

 icon What is Infrared Light and How Does It Work?

High School

 icon Air Pressure - What is Air Pressure and How Can It Be Measured?

 icon Aircraft Fire Rescue - How Does a Firefighter Put Out an Airplane Fire?

 icon Altitude Tracking

 icon Antacid Tablet Race

 icon Balloon Staging - Rocket Staging

 icon Bicycles - How Do a Bike and Its Rider Stay Up?

 icon Circles of Light: The Mathematics of Rainbows

 icon Circus High Wire - How Do Tightrope Walkers Keep Their Balance?

 icon Cryogenics - Science - Fact or Science Fiction?

 icon Domed Stadiums - What Keeps Inflated Stadiums Up?

 icon Flying Tube

 icon Flying Wing

 icon Four-Wing Paper Boomerang

 icon Frisbee Physics - How Does Physics Play a Role in Frisbee Flying?

 icon Hollywood Stunts

 icon How Do Clocks Keep Time?

 icon Human Slingshot Ride - How Does the "Ejector Seat" Ride Work?

 icon Hypercoaster - How Do You Know a Roller Coaster Is Safe?

 icon Ice Surfers - How Do They Go So Fast?

 icon In-Line Skating - Do In-Line Skates Really Go Faster than Roller Skates?

 icon Inca Engineering - How Did the Incas Build Without Mortar or Wheels?

 icon Liquid Bottle Rocket

 icon Liquid Nitrogen Fun!

 icon Locks and Dams - How Does a Lock and Dam make an Unnavigable Part of a Waterway Navigable?

 icon Luge - How Do Engineering and Technology Play a Role in the Olympics?

 icon Making a Hair Hygrometer

 icon Making a Steam-Powered "Rocket Boat"

 icon Making a Wind Sock

 icon Match Stick Rocket

 icon McEagle Styrofoam Glider

 icon Microwave Ovens - What Is the Science Behind Microwave Cooking?

 icon Mummies - How Are Mummies Able to "Survive" the Tests of Time?

 icon Musical Tube

 icon Pencil Rockets

 icon Ping Pong Ball Curves

 icon Riverboats - How Does Steam Power Big Machinery

 icon Rock Climbing - How Can the Human Body Stick to a Sheer Cliff?

 icon Rocket Car

 icon Rocket Pinwheel

 icon Scuba Diving

 icon Ski Jumping - How Do Ski Jumpers Go So Far?

 iconSlinky Physics - How Do Toys Work?

 icon Soda Pop Can Hero Engine

 icon Splitting Water - H2O Hydrolysis

 icon Telecommunications - New Frontiers in Electronic Communications

 iconUsing Bubbles to Learn about Light Interference

 iconWaterskiing - How Do Water Skis Stay Up?

 icon What Is Infrared Light and How Does It Work?

 icon Wooden Helicopter