High School Lesson Plans

• Force and Motion
  1. Rocket Pinwheel (K-12)
  2. Simple Machines (1-12)
  3. Air ...What Gives? (3-12)
  4. The Ringer (3-12)
  5. Vectors (3-12)
  6. Flying Objects (3-)
  7. Flying Tube (4-12)
  8. Flying Wing (4-12)
  9. Four-Wing Paper Boomerang (4-12)
  10. Hot Air Balloon (4-12)
  11. Match Stick Rocket (4-12)
  12. McEagle Styrofoam Glider (4-12)
  13. Newton Car (4-12)
  14. Ping Pong Ball Curves (4-12)
  15. Rocket Car (4-12)
  16. Soda Pop Can Hero Engine (4-12)
  17. Wooden Helicopter (4-12)
  18. Spacecraft Speed and Acceleration (7-12)
  19. The Human Pendulum (7-12)
  20. Determining a Spring Constant (8-12)
  21. One Two Three Isaac Newton and Me (9-12)
  22. Gravitational Pull - Weight Watchers and Revolutions (9-12)
  23. Pendulums (10)
  24. Liquid Crystal Demonstration of Aerodynamic Drag (10-12)
  25. Bernoulli Effect (10-12)
  26. Swingers Learn the Physics of Pendulums in Cartoon Land (10-14)
  27. Physics 12 (12)
  28. Vector Kinematics in Two Dimensions (12)

• Properties of Matter
  1. Bernoulli Theorem Aeronautics (K-12)
  2. Crystal Growing (1-12)
  3. Radioactive Decay Curve (1-12)
  4. Polystyrene Containers (3-12)
  5. Building a Psychrometer (3-12)
  6. Radioactive Decay/Half-Life (3-12)
  7. Hot Air Tissue Paper Balloon (4-12)
  8. Temperature Variant Liquid Crystal Road Warning Sign (4-12)
  9. The Ranque-Hilsch Tube: Thermodynamics Displayed in a Vortex (6-12)
  10. Movement of Substances Across the Plasma Membrane (6-12)
  11. Air: Demonstrating Its Presence and Effects (6-12)
  12. Aliens on Tour (7-12)
  13. All the News (7-12)
  14. Houses in the Desert (7-12)
  15. Come Fly with Me (7-12)
  16. Visual Models of Solutions and Concentrations (9-12)
  17. Using Liquid Crystals to Relate Cooling Time to Specific Heat for Various Materials (9-12)
  18. Chemicals and Reactions (10)
  19. Radioactivity (10)
  20. Cleaning Up with Liquid Crystals Soap Bubbles and Lyotropic Liquid Crystals (10-12)
  21. MTV no PTV (11-12)
  22. PV = nRT = BANG ! (11-12)

• Changes
  1. Creating Water in the Desert (K-12)
  2. Liquid Nitrogen Fun! (4-12)
  3. The Drinking Bird (9-12)

• Magnetism
  1. Introduction to Magnets (K-12)
  2. Magnetic Fields and Bermuda Triangles (8-12)
  3. Electricity and Magnetism (10)

• Energy
  1. Antacid Tablet Race (4-12)
  2. Kinetic Energy and Work (5-12)
  3. The Science of Solar Cells (7-12)
  4. What's Wrong with Nuclear Power, Anyway? (7-12)
  5. Sunlight, SunHEAT! (7-12)
  6. A Simple Device to Measure Solar Radiation (8-12)
  7. Solar Cells (9-12)
  8. Bungie Jumping Lab (10-12)

• Sound
  1. Wave Motion (1-12)
  2. Speed of Sound (4-12)
  3. Musical Tube (4-12)
  4. Ringing Rod Demo Lesson Plan (7-12)
  5. Visualization of Sound (9-12)

• Electricity
  1. Taking Apart Electrical Appliances (1-12)
  2. Electricity (5-12)
  3. Communication - Vibration, Electronic Signals, and Electromagnetic Radiation (9-12)
  4. Electrostatics (10-12)
  5. Mapping Equipotentials and Electric Fields (11-12)

• Light, Color, & Optics
  1. The Light Tour (4-10)
  2. Magic Mirror Box (4-12)
  3. Using Bubbles to Learn About Light Interference (4-12)
  4. Polarized Light (4-12)
  5. Making a Pinhole Coffee Can Camera (6-12)
  6. Properties of Light (6-12)
  7. Auroras: Paintings in the Sky (6-12)
  8. Refractive Index: A Gateway to Understanding Liquid Crystals (7-12)
  9. Now You See It, Now You Don't (7-12)
  10. The Electromagnetic Spectrum (7-12)
  11. How Far Does Light Go? (7-12)
  12. Looking at Light (7-12)
  13. Optical Images (9-12)
  14. Polarization of Light (10-12)

• Earth
  1. Understanding Time Zones (4-12)
  2. Probes, Exploration & Application (8-12)
  3. Measure the Earth (9-12)
  4. Eratosthenes Finds Diameter of Earth! (9-12)
  5. Earth Forces (10)

• Sky & Atmosphere
  1. The Cloud in the Bottle (4-12)
  2. Altering Climate in the Classroom (4-12)
  3. A Greenhouse Gas in a Bottle: Carbon Dioxide as a Factor in Global Warming (7-12)
  4. What Color Is the Sky (7-12)
  5. Bringing the Greenhouse Effect Down to Earth (9-12)
  6. Weather and Waves: Meteorology and Oceanography Data from Buoys and Satellites (9-12)
  7. Graphing Stratospheric Ozone (11-12)

• Space Exploration
  1. NASA's Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer (EUVE) Satellite Dataflow Demonstration (4-12)
  2. Altitude Tracking (4-12)
  3. Balloon Staging (4-12)
  4. Liquid Bottle Rocket (4-12)
  5. Pencil Rockets (4-12)
  6. Eyes in the Sky (6-12)
  7. Communication Blocks for Space Science (7-12)
  8. Spectra from Space (9-11)
  9. The EUVE Orbit (9-12)
  10. The Great Satellite Search! (9-12)
  11. Tethered Satellites (9-12)
  12. Design a Communications Antenna for a Planetary Spacecraft (9-12)
  13. Physics Lab Rockets (9-12)

• Solar System
  1. Relative Distances of Planets Within the Solar System (6-12)
  2. Exploring the Planets (6-12)
  3. Take a Spin Through the Solar System (7-12)
  4. Charting the Planets (7-12)

• Astronomy
  1. Sunrise - Sunset (4-12)
  2. Luna and Io - A Comparison Study (4-12)
  3. Ice on Venus? (4-12)
  4. Classifying Galaxies (5-9)
  5. Making a Simple Sextant to Find Latitude (5-10)
  6. Galaxies and the Galactic Time Scale (5-12)
  7. Observational Astronomy with Binoculars and Astrolabes (5-12)
  8. Astronomy-Binoculars and Astrolabes (5-12)
  9. What's Your Sign? The Science Behind the Zodiac (6-12)
  10. Crashed on the Moon (7-12)
  11. The Black Whole (7-12)
  12. Astronomy: A Star Party (9-12)
  13. Measuring the Diameter of the Sun (9-12)
  14. Electromagnetic Radiation on Trial (9-12)
  15. Exploring Earth from Space (9-12)
  16. Comet Exploration Debate (9-12)
  17. Stars and Slopes (10-12)
  18. Supernova Chemistry (11-12)

• Misc.
  1. Cause and Effect (K-12)
  2. Toys in Space 2 (K-12)
  3. Cooperation Blocks (K-12)
  4. The Pythagorean Puzzle (K-12)
  5. Creative Activities for the Sciences (K-12)
  6. Science and Technology Timeline (3-12)
  7. Circles Minilab (3-12)
  8. Donut Sort (3-)
  9. Consumer Testing in the Classroom (4-12)
  10. How Science Affects Our Lives (5-10)
  11. Connect the (Bio)Dots (6-12)
  12. Does Body Temperature Influence Athletic Prowess? (7-12)
  13. Remotely Operated Liquid Crystal Experiment (7-12)
  14. Measuring Distances with Triangulation (7-12)
  15. Water Quality for Freshwater Organisms (8-12)
  16. Fact or Theory (8-12)
  17. Indy 500 (8-12)
  18. Reading a Thermometer (9-10)
  19. Mean, Median and Data Graphing (9-10)
  20. Science Show (9-12)
  21. Heat Investigations with a 49 Cents Cholesteric Business card (9-12)
  22. Ancient Math and Science (9-12)
  23. Using Standard Deviation, Part 1 (9-12)
  24. Using Standard Deviation, Part 2 (9-12)
  25. Applications of Science (10)
  26. Using Parallax to Determine Distances (10-12)
  27. Modeling a LCD Color Projection Panel Pixel (10-12)
  28. Morgan Park High School Physics Course Descriptions (10-12)
  29. Science and Technology 11 (11)
  30. Physics (Introduction) (11)
  31. Science Working in Business and Industry (11-12)