Physics

Participants explore the challenges of space exploration by designing, building and testing a space probe to land on Mars.

Participants gain a basic understanding of electricity by experimenting with electrical circuits, conductors, insulators and electromagnets.

Participants experiment with magnets to discover their unique properties of attraction, repulsion and polarity.

Participants work in teams to design, create and test a variety of items to solve challenging science and engineering problems.

Practice inquiry skills by experimenting with how balls bounce and roll.

Participants construct a playground out of simple machines.

Students will design an illusion in order to understand how motion is perceived.

Students explore various aspects of flight and apply their knowledge by designing and testing paper planes.

Students participate in a series of exciting virtual quizzes.

How can we use basic knowledge of how circuits work to construct a simple appliance? This burglar alarm is easy to understand based on knowledge of circuits and switches.

The principles of electricity and magnetism can be used to communicate - for example by using an electromagnet to make a Morse code transmitter.

Buoyancy is the upward force that the water is exerting on the object that is floating. It is what is keeping the object from sinking! In this activity, we will learn about buoyancy through creating our own boats.

This is a comprehensive lesson plan on sailing - the history of sailing, parts of a sailboat, the physics of floating, wind, physics of sails, keeling and modern sails. The kit also includes an activity where students make a sailboat and hold a regatta.

Online instructions for building inexpensive microscope stands that can be used with smartphones to take pictures of magnified objects.

In this activity, we will learn all about gases, pressure and the states of matter by making alka-seltzer rockets!