50 PHYSICS LESSON PLANS FOR MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS
/Here are a number of great science lessons plans for middle school students. Enjoy
- Air Bags and Collisions - How Do Airbags Prevent Automobile Injuries?
- Airfoil Experiment 1
- Air Pressure
- Air Pressure - What is Air Pressure and How Can It Be Measured?
- Aircraft Fire Rescue - How Does a Firefighter Put Out an Airplane Fire?
- Altitude Tracking
- Antacid Tablet Race
- Balloon Staging - Rocket Staging
- Balloons - Why Are They Stretchy?
- Battery Life
- Bicycles - How Do a Bike and Its Rider Stay Up?
- Car Engines
- Circus High Wire - How Do Tightrope Walkers Keep Their Balance?
- Colored Shadows - Using Lights to Mix Colors
- Cryogenics - Science - Fact or Science Fiction?
- Demonstrating Dew and Frost
- Domed Stadiums - What Keeps Inflated Stadiums Up?
- The Dry Compass Experiment
- Finger Boomerangs
- Fish Tank Optics
- Flying Tube
- Flying Wing
- Four-Wing Paper Boomerang
- Frisbee Physics - How Does Physics Play a Role in Frisbee Flying?
- Glass Blowing
- Hollywood Stunts
- How a Plane Is Controlled
- How Can I Control the Soccer Ball?
- How Do Clocks Keep Time?
- Human Slingshot Ride - How Does the "Ejector Seat" Ride Work?
- Hypercoaster - How Do You Know a Roller Coaster Is Safe?
- Ice Surfers - How Do They Go So Fast?
- In-Line Skating - Do In-Line Skates Really Go Faster than Roller Skates?
- Inca Engineering - How Did the Incas Build Without Mortar or Wheels?
- Lemon Power
- Liquid Bottle Rocket
- Liquid Nitrogen Fun!
- Locks and Dams - How Do a Lock and Dam make an Unnavigable Part of a Waterway Navigable?
- Luge - How Do Engineering and Technology Play a role in the Olympics?
- Making a Barometer
- Making a Hair Hygrometer
- Making an Air Thermometer
- Making a Straw Woodwind
- Making a Weather Vane
- Making a Wind Anemometer
- Making a Wind Sock
- Making a Wind Vane
- Making Paper Airplane Gliders
- Making a Steam-Powered "Rocket Boat"
- "Maple Seed" Helicopters
- Match Stick Rocket
- McEagle Styrofoam Glider
- Microwave Ovens - What Is the Science Behind Microwave Cooking?
- Mummies - How Are Mummies Able to "Survive" the Tests of Time?
- Musical Tube
- Newton Car
- Paper Rockets
- Peanut Power
- Pencil Rockets
- Ping Pong Ball Curves
- Playing with Polymers
- Propeller Experiment 4
- Propeller Experiment 5
- Riverboats - How Does Steam Power Big Machinery
- Robots
- Rock Climbing - How Can the Human Body Stick to a Sheer Cliff?
- Rocket Car
- Rocket Pinwheel
- Science Safari: Energy Resources
- Scuba Diving
- Sewer Science - Where Does Sewage Go?
- Ski Jumping - How Do Ski Jumpers Go So Far?
- Slinky Physics - How Do Toys Work?
- Soda Pop Can Hero Engine
- Splitting Water - H2O Hydrolysis
- Telecommunications - New Frontiers in Electronic Communications
- Using Bubbles to Learn about Light Interference
- Waterskiing - How Do Water Skis Stay Up?
- The Wet Compass Experiment
- What is Infrared Light and How Does It Work?
- Wooden Helicopter