This project is designed to take place over the course of 6-10 weeks (which can be modified to suit your schedule). It is divided into 5 parts, each due on separate days.
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Student Activity: Refraction of Light - Disappearing Penny
Categories: Lab/Student Activity
This demonstration serves as a superb introduction to the refraction of light. Students place a penny underneath a plastic cup. While viewing the penny through the side of the cup, they slowly fill... read more
GRADE 5 ENERGY TRANSFORMATIONS: ELASTIC POWERED CARS
Categories: Lab/Student Activity, Lesson Plan
In this activity, students learn about engineering design by constructing elastic powered cars from everyday materials that can travel in a straight line for a distance of at least 3 meters within a... read more
Student Activity: Rutherford's Black Box
Categories: Lab/Student Activity
We are most accustomed to making observations directly with our eyes. Students therefore often find it conceptually challenging to comprehend the reasoning and logic used by scientists studying atoms... read more
