Students explore kinetic and potential energy. In this energy instructional activity, students launch toys cars from ramps in order to examine the relationship between potential energy and kinetic energy. Students collect data and...

Middle schoolers engage in an activity which demonstrates how potential energy (PE) can be converted to kinetic energy (KE) and back again. Given a pendulum height, students calculate and predict how fast the pendulum will swing by...

Fourth graders, in groups, examine how temperature is a measure of the average translational kinetic energy.

Middle schoolers explain necessity in using accurate instruments when measuring, and how measurements can be checked for accuracy. They make a six-inch ruler, design, test, and evaluate a system to measure work, and produce a table and...

Young scholars investigate conservation laws using a potato launcher. In this physics instructional activity, students measure angles, time and distance of the potato. They discuss applications of experiments like this.

Students are involved in hands-on activities to determine how course conditions affect bobsled, luge, and downhill ski races.