Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)
Smile: Potential Energy: How Is It Related to Kinetic Energy
After creating three different ramps with various heights, students will release toy cars from the tops of each ramp. Based on the elementary age level, students will collect data and analyze it.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Mn Step: Slow the Ball
For this experiment, students will design a track for a rolling ball to try to have the longest roll time possible. They will, in the process, apply their understanding of kinetic and potential energy, and acceleration and deceleration.
John F. Kennedy Center
The Kennedy Center: Balancing Mobiles
In this lesson plan, students will apply mathematical, science, and engineering concepts to experiment with balancing levers. They will learn to classify types of levers to design and build a simplified mobile. Students will explore...
NC State University
The Engineering Place: Roller Coasters [Pdf]
A lesson where young scholars construct a roller coaster and test it under different conditions to learn about force and motion.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Teaching Engineering Design With an Egg Drop
Students build a device to protect an egg and prevent it from breaking when dropped.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Hydrogen Oxygen Rockets
Students investigate how to build and launch a simple rocket that uses hydrogen and oxygen gases that will be mixed to propel the rocket. Students learn the principles of combustion reactions, kinetics, stoichiometry of reactions,...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Motion Commotion
Young scholars learn why and how motion occurs and what governs changes in motion, as described by Newton's three laws of motion. They gain hands-on experience with the concepts of forces, changes in motion, and action and reaction. In...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Exploring Molecular Movement: Does Temperature Matter?
For this interactive demonstration, students observe what happens to food coloring when dropped into beakers containing different temperatures of water.
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