General Lesson Plans

• Force and Motion
  1. Motion of a Bowling Ball
  2. Strings and Springs
  3. Super-Ball Physics
  4. Inertia
  5. How to Speed Up a Slow Gradfather - The Pendulum
  6. Objects Race 500
  7. Newton's Second Law of Motion
  8. Periodic Motion - The Pendulum
  9. Inertia
  10. Weightlessness
  11. Bouncing Balls
  12. Friction - What a Drag
  13. Momentum Conserved
  14. Momentum and Colliding Spheres
  15. Straight Line Motion with a Stomper
  16. Periodic Motion - The Pendulum
  17. Why Use Seat Belts?
  18. Projectile Motion
  19. Sports in PHysics: Measuring Velocity in a Mini-Olympics
  20. So You Want to Hit a Home Run?
  21. Center of Gravity
  22. Friction
  23. Circular Motion
  24. Rolling Spheres on Inclined Planes
  25. Orbital Motion
  26. Positioning the Fulcrum in Class One Levers
  27. Rotational Inertia
  28. Projectile Motion (or You Bet Your Grade)
  29. Forces and Acceleration
  30. Helicopter
  31. Projectile Motion
  32. Newton's Laws of Motion
  33. Simple Machines
  34. Retrograde Motion
  35. Inertia
  36. Pendulum Problems
  37. Sitting on Nails-Boyle's Law
  38. Newton's Third Law of Motion
  39. Balance and Gravity
  40. Friction
  41. What Is Work?
  42. Oscillations
  43. Acceleration
  44. Demonstrations of Law of Conservation of Linear Momentum
  45. Centripetal Force
  46. Flight Physics
  47. Conservation of Momentum
  48. Measuring the Gravitational Constant, G
  49. Vectors
  50. Friction
  51. Air Pressure
  52. Do You Sink or Float?
  53. Bathtub Physics - Density, Buoyancy and Floatation
  54. The Science of Airplane Flight
  55. Aerodynamics
  56. Using a Video Camera in the Physics Classroom
  57. Force
  58. Bottle Forcemeter
  59. Ball in an Air Stream
  60. Do-It-Yourself Spring Scale
  61. Using Spring Scales
  62. Torque
  63. Balancing Meter Stick
  64. Torque Tester
  65. Torque Tools
  66. Pressure
  67. Balloon in a Bottle
  68. Blowing Through a Funnel
  69. The Burping Funnel
  70. The Heavy Paper
  71. Lifting Cups
  72. Pressure Bottle
  73. Velocity
  74. Quarter Flick
  75. Snail Trails
  76. Bernoulli
  77. Blowing Cans
  78. Blowing Paper
  79. Hovering Card
  80. Ping Pong Balls
  81. Unrolling Toilet Paper
  82. Water Sprayer
  83. Lift and Drag
  84. Tip Vortices
  85. Lift
  86. Circulation
  87. Paper Wing
  88. Drag
  89. Paper Shapes
  90. TIMS The Bouncing Ball (All)
  91. Candle See-Saw (Gravity)
  92. Egg-Top (Centripetal Force)
  93. The Lazy Log (Inertia)
  94. Spinning Ball (Centripetal Force)
  95. Strong Egg (Pressure)
  96. Loss of Weight
  97. The Yellow Submarine
  98. Frisbee Physics
  99. Domed Stadium
  100. Slinky Physics
  101. High Jump
  102. Air Bags and Collisions
  103. Hollywood Stunts
  104. Air Pressure
  105. Rock Climbing
  106. Jumbo Jets
  107. Windsurfing
  108. The Bends
  109. Hang Gliding
  110. Karate
  111. Aircraft Carrier
  112. Gravity
  113. Bridges
  114. Circus High Wire
  115. In-line Skating
  116. Bicycles
  117. Soccer
  118. Hypercoaster
  119. Inca Engineering
  120. Will You Be Wet Or Dry?
  121. The Sound of Gravity
  122. Flying Tube
  123. Bionic Plungers
  124. A Quick Pull Is a Break for Newton
  125. The Soda Can Cannon
  126. Bottle Blast
  127. The Pepsi Ghost
  128. The Suspended Hammer
  129. The Heavyweight Grape
  130. The Fork-Spoon Balancing Trick
  131. Introductory Lab to Friction, Velocity and Acceleration
  132. Exploring Velocity
  133. I Feel the Need for Speed
  134. Rocket Launch Vehicle

• Properties of Matter
  1. Pressure in Fluids
  2. Viscosity
  3. The Unmixables: Investigating Immiscible Liquids
  4. Surface Tension
  5. Air Pressure
  6. Air Pressure
  7. The Pressure of a Liquid
  8. Liquid Conductors
  9. Liquid Pressure
  10. Demonstrating the Kinds of Energy
  11. How to Make Water Run Uphill
  12. An Alternative Temperature Measurement
  13. Particle Physics Education Materials
  14. Knot in a Cigarette (Pressure)
  15. Air Pressure Fountain
  16. Balloon in the Bottle vs. Air Pressure
  17. Column of Ice
  18. Comparing Differences in Specific Heat
  19. Exploding Stone
  20. Heated Coins
  21. Floating Metal
  22. Magic Match
  23. Mountain of Water
  24. Speedboat
  25. Water Rose
  26. Watertight Sieve
  27. Crystal Formation
  28. Forming Convection Currents
  29. Bottle Barometer
  30. Hygrometer at Home
  31. Firefighting
  32. Garlic
  33. Photography
  34. Balloons
  35. Clocks
  36. Flinkers
  37. Surface Tension
  38. Keeping Paper Dry Under Water
  39. Ice Cube Lifter
  40. Magic Disappearing Balls
  41. Egg Blow
  42. Cafeteria Coke Joke
  43. The Bernoulli Pop Can Ghost
  44. Egg Drop
  45. Pop Bottle Barometer
  46. Something's Fishy
  47. Swelling Syringes
  48. The Hoover Bugle
  49. The Clinging Water
  50. Heavy Air
  51. Staying Dry Under Water
  52. Mystery Elements

• Changes
  1. Solids, Liquids, and Gases
  2. Cutting Through Ice
  3. Fire Under Water
  4. Hovercraft
  5. Ice Hook
  6. Iceberg
  7. Paper Saucepan
  8. Exploring Solids, Liquids, and Gases
  9. Riverboats
  10. The Collapsing Can
  11. B Squared (Burning Balloons)
  12. Ice Cube Lift
  13. The Black Banana

• Magnetism
  1. Electromagnets
  2. Magnets, Electromagnets & Fields of Force
  3. Magnets, Electromagnets, and Motors
  4. Magnets
  5. Magnets
  6. Magnetism
  7. Electric and Magnetic Fields
  8. Current-Carrying Coils in Magnetic Fields
  9. Electro-Magnet
  10. Mysterious Circles - Magnetic Fields w/ Electricity
  11. Compass Needle
  12. How TV Works
  13. Aurora Borealis
  14. LENZ Law
  15. Lesson Plan for Electromagnetism
  16. Renaissance Research Team
  17. Simple Maglev Train

• Energy
  1. Earthquake Waves and Their Destructions
  2. Thermal Energy Transfer - Conduction
  3. Waves
  4. Solar Powered Cars
  5. Microwave Ovens
  6. Archery
  7. Human Slingshot Ride
  8. Olympic Solar Energy
  9. Ethanol
  10. Ski Jumping
  11. "Can" You Come Back!
  12. Fission and Fusion
  13. The Heat Stretch
  14. Energy
  15. Bouncing Balls
  16. Linked Pendulums
  17. Paint-Can Pendulum
  18. Velcro Cans
  19. Watts in the Water: Student Generated Power
  20. Determining Momentum and Energy Loss of Balls Colliding Against Different Surfaces
  21. Work, Power, and Entropy

• Sound
  1. Sound
  2. Homemade Instruments
  3. Making Sounds
  4. Sound
  5. Pitch
  6. Sound
  7. Sound/Pitch
  8. How Sound Travels
  9. Guitar Waves
  10. From Vibration to Sound
  11. Computer Interfacing: Frequency Measurement - The Doppler Effect
  12. Note Transfer (Vibration)
  13. Water Organ (Vibration)
  14. A Hot Tone
  15. Eardrums
  16. Is It Coming Or Going?
  17. The Hoover Bugle
  18. The Fiddler on the Door
  19. Pitch Pipe
  20. The Soda Fountain Band

• Electricity
  1. Batteries and Bulbs
  2. Resistances in Series and Parallel Circuits
  3. Introduction to Elementary Circuits
  4. Electricity
  5. Exploring Series and Parallel Circuits
  6. Electron Current Flow
  7. Conductors and Insulators
  8. Ohm's Law
  9. Electric Currents and Circuits
  10. What Is Electricity
  11. The Millikan L'Eggs Experiment
  12. Electrochemistry
  13. Coulomb's Law
  14. Hostile Balloons w/ Same Charge
  15. Coin Current
  16. Electric Foil Balls
  17. Graphite Conductor
  18. Pepper and Salt
  19. Potato Battery
  20. Shooting Puffed Rice
  21. Simple Electroscope
  22. Clinging Balloons - Static Electricity
  23. Electric Cars
  24. Electricity
  25. Beakman's Electric Motor

• Light, Color, & Optics
  1. Light - Reflection - Illusion
  2. An Awareness of Light Made Simply Fun
  3. Plane Mirror Images
  4. Hear the Light?
  5. Comparison of Images Formed by Plane, Cylindrical and Spherical Mirrors
  6. I Can See a Rainbow!
  7. "You May Now Enter the Holodeck."
  8. Spherical Mirrors
  9. Polarized Light
  10. Colors
  11. Reflections of
  12. Polarization
  13. Comparison of Images Formed by Plane, Cylindrical (concave side), and Spherical (concave side) Mirrors
  14. Alternate Theory of Color Perception
  15. Microscopes and Telescopes
  16. Optical Illusions
  17. Reflections with Mirros
  18. Color Mixing
  19. Comparison of Images Formed by Plane, Cylindrical (Concave Side), and Spherical (Concave Side) Mirrors
  20. Laser Holography
  21. A Mirror Brain Teaser
  22. Egg-Top (Centripetal Force)
  23. Broken Pencil (Optics)
  24. Dissappearing Pencils (Optics)
  25. Fire Through Ice (Optics)
  26. Kaleidoscope (Optics)
  27. Magic Glass (Optics)
  28. Pinhole Camera (Optics)
  29. Secret of 3-D Postcards (Optics)
  30. Spectrum Top
  31. Telecommunications
  32. Compact Discs
  33. Infrared Light
  34. Virtual Reality
  35. Gems
  36. Titanium Dioxide
  37. Seeing the Light: An AC Experience
  38. Why Do We Need Two Eyes?
  39. The Invisible Penny
  40. The Reappearing Coin
  41. Introductory Lab to Lenses
  42. About Rainbows
  43. Einstein Revealed

• Earth
  1. Plate Tectonics
  2. Asteroids and Dinosaurs
  3. Core Sampling
  4. Forming Sediment Layers
  5. Geysers
  6. P-Waves
  7. Salt Beds
  8. Stalagmites and Stalactites
  9. The Tilting Earth
  10. Dinosaur Extinction

• Sky & Atmosphere
  1. Kinds of Weather and What to Wear
  2. Reading a Weather Map
  3. Acid Rain
  4. Sky Blue
  5. Ozone
  6. Magic Lid
  7. The Upside-down Glass of Water

• Space Exploration
  1. Rockets
  2. Space Stations
  3. Satellite Technology
  4. Educator's Guide to Robotic Spacecraft
  5. Educator's Guide to Spotting the Shuttle
  6. Basics of Spaceflight Workbook
  7. Goddard Missions Classroom

• Solar System
  1. Paper Mache Solar System
  2. Where in the Solar System is Carmine San Dimas?
  3. Our Solar System at a Glance
  4. Planets in the Solar System

• Astronomy
  1. Image of the Sun
  2. Make a Star Chart
  3. Moon
  4. Computers and Space
  5. Simulating an Expanding Universe
  6. Stars and Color
  7. Star Counting
  8. Using a Shadow Stick to Find a North-South Line
  9. Observing Parallax Displacement
  10. Sculpting an Asteroid
  11. Which Way Is "Up?" (All Ages)
  12. Are All Asteroids' Surfaces the Same Age?
  13. Data Transfer and Codes: BASE 2
  14. Where's the Earth?
  15. Soviet Space
  16. Solar Eclipse
  17. Galaxy Mapping
  18. Black Holes
  19. Meteor
  20. Sun
  21. Hubble Telescope
  22. Educator's Guide to Kitchen Comets
  23. Educator's Guide to Convection
  24. Educator's Guide to Eclipses
  25. Educator's Guide to Impact Craters
  26. Educator's Guide to the Inverse Square Law
  27. Educator's Guide to Life Beyond Earth
  28. Educator's Guide to Micrometeorites
  29. Educator's Guide to Moon Phases
  30. Aliens
  31. Educator's Guide to Sunspots
  32. The Impace of Shoemaker-Levy 9
  33. Stellar Evolution
  34. Contour Mapping
  35. Counting Craters
  36. Impact Cratering (For Students)
  37. Impact Cratering (For Teachers)
  38. Displaying and Analyzing Topex/Poseidon Data Images (Macintosh)
  39. Venus Topography Box (For Students)
  40. Venus Topography Box (For Teachers)
  41. Weightlessness is a Myth
  42. Assorted Activities
  43. Binary Numbers
  44. COBE Big Bang Cosmology Activities
  45. COBE Secrets of Big Bang Activities
  46. Colored Shadows
  47. Compton Gamma Ray Activities
  48. Paint by Numbers
  49. Polar Laboratory Activities
  50. Simple Spectroscope
  51. Supernova in X-ray Activities
  52. Wind Laboratory Activities
  53. Comparing Earth and Mars
  54. Similarities Between Earth and Mars: There's No Place Like Home
  55. Sky DEN
  56. Hands on the Hubble Space Telescope
  57. Making a Comet in the Classroom

• Misc.
  1. Physics at the Zoo
  2. Measurement
  3. View Tube Triangulation
  4. The Puzzle
  5. Using the Senses as a Means of Observation
  6. Vectors via the Calculator (For Non-Math Students
  7. 10Huh?
  8. To Construct an "Altitude Locator"
  9. Measurement
  10. A Potpourri of Science Ideas
  11. Computerized Problem Review
  12. Persistence of Vision
  13. 20 Ideas for Teaching Science Using the Newspaper (Various)
  14. Balloon Fun (All)
  15. Using the Periodic Table
  16. Arctic Survival
  17. How Much CO2 in a Soda Can?
  18. Burn Paper with Ice?
  19. Are You Left or Right Sighted?
  20. The Leprechaun in a Bottle
  21. The Scientific Method - Outline for "Lab Writeup"
  22. The Changing Face of Science - The Contributions of Women to Science and Mathematics Past and Present
  23. Men and Women of the Atom
  24. Rocketsmania and Slope
  25. Reaction Time