Thinking about improving your sports performance? Want to help friends and family make the most of their physical fitness activities? One factor to consider is food. Whether you realize it or not, what you eat does change your body. It...

Heart rates can be determined by the amount of physical activity your body is engaging in. The more physically active you are, the faster your heart beats. You can measure the rate your heart is beating by taking your pulse. This science...

The majority of video games are sedentary, meaning done in one position, but there is an increasing trend toward video games where the players are physically active. Whether or not these type of video games can be considered exercise is...

Physical activity is needed for maintaining normal bone strength and mass. But whether physical stress on finger bones during development leads to an increase in finger length, is something you will discover in this project not by...

If you have ever had to adjust to a new time zone, you have noticed that it takes a while before you start to feel normal again. By shifting your sleep and activity schedule, you have altered the pattern of your body's circadian rhythms....

Have you ever looked through a magnifying lens? Why do things look bigger when you look at them through the magnifying lens? Even though the object appears to get larger, it really stays the same size. Each lens has its own unique power...

Great site explores the physics behind an electrical guitar. Outlines process for conducting an experiment on sound vibrations and provides animated GIF movies showing the first five modes of vibration.

This unit of study contains three lessons, each with three experiences that may be taught together or individually. Each lesson plan will connect to science and/or math standards, along with a health standard or sports connection.

This site from the Illinois Institute of Technology provides a student lab activity in which the flight of a paper airplane is investigated and studied. Designed for primary grades, but easily adaptable for junior high students.

Join NASA in its study of oceanography and learn about the Earth system, the physical ocean, and life in the ocean. Try out the Giovanni: Earth Data Visualization Tool and access satellite-derived data to enhance the learning experience.

Students will explore matter that sinks or floats when submerged in water and that matter is categorized as either a sinker or a floater. Students will work actively in small, cooperative learning groups as well as gather in a whole...

From the Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE) program. A lesson plan in which young scholars explore the nature and structure of a variety of naturally occurring crystals, such as quartz, fluorite, citrine,...

Lesson plan should be used for intermediate learners. Students work in pairs or groups to create a shoe box that will bend light.