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Subject Area: Physical Science
Summary
Physical science is the science of matter and energy and their interactions and examines the physical world around us. Using the methods of the physical sciences, students learn about the composition, structure, properties, and reactions of matter and the relationships between matter and energy. Students are best able to build understanding of the physical sciences through hands-on exploration of the physical world.Related Curricular Units
- Air Pollution
- Bridges
- Conduction, Convection, and Radiation
- Energy
- Energy of Motion
- Energy Systems and Solutions
- Energy-Efficient Housing
- Evolutionary Engineering: Simple Machines from Pyramids to Skyscrapers
- Exploring Solar Power
- Floaters and Sinkers
- Mechanics Mania
- Mixtures and Solutions
- Put a Spark In It! - Electricity
- Rockets
- Simple Machines
- Sound and Light
- Students As Scientists
- The Force of Friction
- Up, Up and Away! - Airplanes
- Using Stress and Strain to Detect Cancer!
Related Lessons
- The Advantage of Machines
- Are Dams Forever?
- Are You In Control?
- Art in Engineering - Moving Art
- Blast Off
- Bridging the Gaps
- Can You Take the Pressure?
- Carbon Cycles
- Checking the Surf
- Chemical Wonders
- Circuits
- Collisions and Momentum: Bouncing Balls
- Crash! Bang!
- Designing Bridges
- Detecting Breast Cancer
- Discovering Friction
- Electrifying the World
- Electrons on the Move
- Energy Basics
- Energy Conservation
- Energy Efficiency
- Energy Forms, States and Conversions
- The Energy Problem
- Energy Projects
- Energy Resources and Systems
- Energy Transfer in Musical Instruments
- The Energy of Light
- The Energy of Music
- Engineering in Sports
- Engineering: Simple Machines
- Exploring the Forces of Tension
- Factors Affecting Friction
- Fairly Fundamental Facts About Forces & Structures
- Floaters and Sinkers
- From Sunlight to Electric Current
- The Fundamental Building Blocks of Matter
- Future Flights!
- Get Charged!
- Go with the Flow
- A Good Foundation
- Heat Transfer
- Heat Transfer
- Household Energy Conservation and Efficiency
- How Do Things Fall?
- How Far Does a Lava Flow Go?
- How Hot Is It?
- How Many Drops?
- How Much Sugar is in Bubble Gum?
- How a Faucet Works
- I Don't Believe My Eyes!
- I've Gotta Get Some Air
- Imagine Life without Friction
- Just Plane Simple
- Keep in Touch: Communications and Satellites
- Kinetic and Potential Energy of Motion
- Land! Water! Sky! Oh My!
- Learn to Build a Rocket in 5 Days or Your Money Back
- Let the Sun Shine!
- Let's Heat Things Up!
- Let's Move It!
- Levers that Lift
- Light It Up
- Lights Out!
- Locks and Dams
- Lunar Learning
- A Magnetic Personality
- Making Music
- Many Paths
- May the Force Be With You: Drag
- May the Force Be With You: Lift
- May the Force Be With You: Thrust
- May the Force Be With You: Weight
- Mix It Up
- Motion Commotion
- Move It!
- Needing Illumination - Investigating Light
- Newton Gets Me Moving
- The No Zone of Ozone
- Not So Neutral Views
- Not So Simple
- Off the Grid
- Off the Grid
- Olympic Engineering
- On the Move
- One Path
- The Other Water Cycle
- Passive Solar Design
- Physics of Roller Coasters
- Pictures Please - Traveling Light
- Plumbing the Deep - Using Sound Waves to See
- Pollution Solutions
- Powerful Pulleys
- Presenting Painless Breast Cancer Detection!
- Problem Solving
- Puttin' It All Together
- Pyramid Building: How to Use a Wedge
- Red Light, Green Light
- Ring around the Rosie
- A River Ran Through It
- Rock Solid
- Rocket Me into Space
- Rocking the Boat
- Rube Goldberg and the Meaning of Machines
- The Science of Swinging
- Show Me the Money
- Simple Machines and Modern Day Engineering Analogies
- Slide Right on By Using an Inclined Plane
- Sounds Like Music
- Strength of Materials
- Stress, Strain and Hooke's Law
- Stressed and Strained
- Strong as the Weakest Link
- Surf's Up!
- Swim to and from the Sea!
- Swinging on a String
- Take Charge!
- Take Off with Paper Airplanes
- Thar She Blows!
- To Absorb or Reflect… That is the Question
- Transportation and the Environment
- Two Sides of One Force
- Understanding Elements
- Using Heat from the Sun
- Visible Light and the Electromagnetic Spectrum
- Weather Watchers
- What Floats Your Boat?
- What Makes Airplanes Fly?
- What a Drag
- What is Energy?
- What's Air Got to Do with It?
- What's Hot and What's Not?
- Where Am I: Navigation and Satellites
- Where Has All the Water Gone?
- Will It Fly?
- Work and Power: Waterwheel
- You've Got to See It to Believe It!
Related Activities
- Applying Hooke's Law to Cancer Detection
- A Case of Innovation
- A Merry-Go-Round for Dirty Air
- A Recipe for Air
- A Simple Solution for the Circus
- Acid (and Base) Rainbows
- Acid Rain Effects
- Action-Reaction! Rocket
- Air - Is It Really There?
- Air Pressure
- Aqua-Thrusters!
- Ball Bounce Experiment
- Balsa Glider Competition
- Battling for Oxygen
- Bend That Bar
- Better By Design
- Blackout!
- Blow-and-Go Parachute
- Bouncing Balls
- Bouncing Balls (for High School)
- Breaking Beams
- Breaking the Mold
- Bridge Types: Tensile & Compressive Forces
- Build a Charge Detector
- Build an Anemometer
- Building Tetrahedral Kites
- Building a Fancy Spectrograph
- Bulbs & Batteries Side by Side
- Bulbs & Batteries in a Row
- Buoyant Boats
- Capturing the Sun's Warmth
- Catapults!
- Charge It!
- Choosing a Pyramid Site
- Clay Boats
- Cleaning Air with Balloons
- Compare Fabric Materials
- Completing the Circuit
- Conductivity
- Controlling Sound
- Cooking with the Sun
- Cooking with the Sun - Creating a Solar Oven
- Cosmic Rhythm
- Cost Comparisons
- Couch Potato or Inertia Victim?
- Create a Pinhole Camera
- Dam Forces
- Dam Pass or Fail
- Dangerous Air
- Daylighting Design
- Density Rainbow and the Great Viscosity Race
- Design Packing to Safely Mail Raw Spaghetti
- Design a Flying Machine
- Design a Net-Zero Energy Classroom
- Design and Build a Rube Goldberg
- Designing a Thermostat
- Determining Densities
- Does Contact Area Matter?
- Does Weight Matter?
- Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavor?
- Dripping Wet or Dry as a Bone?
- Echolocation in Action!
- Efficiency of a water heating system
- Efficiency of an electromechanical system
- Egg Drop
- Energy Choices Game
- Energy Conversions
- Energy Detectives at Work
- Energy Intelligence Agency
- Energy Perspectives
- Energy Sources Research
- Energy Systems Activity
- Energy forms and states demonstrations
- Energy in our Lives Carousel
- Engineering and the Periodic Table
- Environmental History Timeline
- Falling Water
- Find It!
- Floating and Falling Flows
- For Your Eyes Only
- Forces and Graphing
- Forces on the Human Molecule
- Fuel Mystery Dis-Solved!
- Fun with Bernoulli
- Glue Stick Activity
- Good News - We're on the Rise!
- Green Marketing
- Greenewables
- Gumdrop Atoms
- Hanging Around
- Heads Up
- Heavy Helicopters
- Hot Cans and Cold Cans
- Hot Stuff!
- Household energy audit
- Hovercraft Racers!
- How Do Things Fall?
- How Far?
- How Good Is Your Hearing?
- How Much Heat Will It Hold?
- How Predictable!
- Human Power
- I Can't Take the Pressure!
- I'm Not in Range
- Is That Legal? A Case of Acid Rain
- It Takes Two to Tangle
- It's Really Heating Up in Here!
- Leaning Tower of Pasta
- Learning Imaging Techniques!
- Let's Bag It
- Let's Get It There Fast
- Light Scavengers
- Light Your Way
- Light vs. Heat Bulbs
- Load It Up!
- Machines and Tools, Part II
- Make Some Waves
- Make Your Own Recycled Paper
- Make Your Own Temperature Scale
- Make an Alarm!
- Making a Liquid Xylophone
- Messin' with Mixtures
- Metamorphosis — Stories of Change
- Model Greenhouses
- Modern Day Pyramids
- Moving without Wheels
- Newton Rocket Car
- Paper Drop Design Competition
- Perching Parrot
- Physics Tug of War
- Pitch and Frequency
- Pollution Politics
- Pop Rockets
- Potato Power
- Power Your House with Water
- Power Your House with Wind
- Power to the People
- Power, Work and the Waterwheel
- Pulley'ing Your Own Weight
- Racing with the Sun - Creating a Solar Car
- Ramp and Review
- Ramp and Review (for High Scool)
- Ready, Set, Escape
- Renew-a-bead
- Riding the Gravity Wave
- Rockets on a Shoestring Budget
- Seeing and Feeling Sound Vibrations
- Serial Dilution of Food Coloring Dye
- Serial Dilution of a Fluorescent Compound
- Shallow & Deep Foundations
- Simon Says Big Amplitude, Small Wavelength!
- Simple Instruments
- Skateboard Disaster
- Sliders
- Sliders (for High School)
- Sliding and Stuttering
- Smoke and Mirrors
- Solar Water Heater
- Solid Rock to Building Block
- Solving Energy Problems
- Spin Me a Story
- Stack It Up!
- Static Cling
- Stations of Light
- Stop Heat from Escaping
- Stop the Stretching
- Straw Bridges
- Strawkets and Control
- Strawkets and Thrust
- Strawkets and Weight
- Stress, Inc.
- Super Spinners!
- Swamp Cooler
- Swing in Time
- Swinging Pendulum
- Swinging Pendulum (for High School)
- Swinging with Style
- Switcheroo
- Take Their Word for It!
- Team Up!
- Tears in Rain
- Testing Fundamental Loads
- The Big Mo
- The Grid
- The Magician's Catapult
- The Path of Electrons
- The Search for Secret Agents
- The Squeeze is On
- The Visual Spectrum
- Tightrope Trials
- Tools and Equipment, Part I
- Touch and Discover
- Tower O' Power
- Traveling Sound
- Turning the Air Upside Down
- Two-Cell Battery
- Washing Air
- Wasting Energy at Home
- Watch It Slide!
- Waterwheel Work
- Watt meters to measure energy consumption
- Wet Pennies
- What Color is Your Air Today?
- What Is Energy? Short Demos
- What a Drag!
- What is the Best Insulator: Air, Styrofoam, Foil, or Cotton?
- What's Hiding in the Air?
- What's a Kid to Do?
- Wheeling It In!
- Will It Conduct?
- Wimpy Radar Antenna
- Wind Power!
- Windmill of Your Mind — Distributed Energy Goes to School
- Windy Tunnel
- Witnessing Evaporation
- Wow! That Captures It!
- Yogurt Cup Speakers
- You Are There… First Flight
- You be the Radiologist!
- You're a Pushover!
- You're in Hot Water
- Zero-Energy Housing
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