41. Paper Helicopters

Students will explore how gravity and air resistance work together to create a graceful twirling miniature helicopter. As you let go of the helicopter, gravity pulls it toward the ground. Air resistance ...

42. What's in a Bottle

Students will investigate a property of air – that it takes up space. The bottle is already full of air. In order for more air, or the ball, to move into the bottle, some air has to come out. The air coming ...

43. Ice Cube Towers

Students use changes of state to create chilly architecture. Slippery Slopes Introduction Students use changes of state to create chilly architecture. Salt lowers the freezing point of water. ...

44. Shape Scavenger Hunt

Shapes like squares, rectangles, and triangles are chosen to give strength and flexibility to furniture, buildings, even playground equipment and jewelry! In this activity, students find shapes in their ...

45. Eggstraordinary Eggsperiments

The Unusual Structural Strength of Eggs! In this resource, students will demonstrate several scientific principles by exploring characteristics of an egg’s material and shape that make it so versatile. ...

46. Wonderful Water

Sprinkle, Splash, Submerge, Soak! In these activities, students will discover cool ways that water interacts with various materials, all due to its special properties. Sprinkle, Splash, Submerge, ...

47. Colour and Light

How are rainbows made? What makes grass green and jeans blue? How do sunglasses work? In this series of demonstrations and activities, students will explore how colours are created and understood by our ...

48. Electrical Energy

Electric motors are everywhere! In your house, almost every mechanical movement that you see around you is caused by an electric motor. In this lesson students will use simple supplies to create ...

49. Magic

Have you ever been to a magic show and wondered how you could perform amazing tricks, too? Many of the most magical looking effects are made possible because of some basic principles of science. This lesson ...

50. Elastic Energy

Ever wonder why a rubber ball bounces or what makes a wind-up toy go? It’s all about the storage of energy! In this unit, students will play, measure, predict, and build their way through a variety of ...

51. Forces

What happens when a bat hits a baseball? Why does a rolling ball eventually stop? How do we walk, jump or run? The answer lies in physics! In this topic, students get the chance to explore how Newton’s ...

52. Magnets

Magnets are much more than fun toys. We use them in all kinds of ways, like telling direction with a compass or keeping refrigerators closed. In these activities, students will use simple experiments and ...

53. Earthquakes

An earthquake is a sudden, rapid shaking of the Earth caused by the release of energy stored in the Earth’s crust. “Earthquake” means any seismic event, whether natural (rubbing of tectonic plates) or ...

54. Static Electricity

Have you ever rubbed a balloon on your head? Why does rubbing a balloon on your head make your hair stand up on end? When you rub the balloon, electrons move from the atoms and molecules in your hair ...

55. Balloons

Not just a lot of hot air! Most children have played with balloons, but few have thought about the chemical and physical concepts involved in balloon production and use. In the activities that follow, ...

56. Air

We may not realize it, but the air that surrounds us is exerting a huge amount of pressure on every square centimetre of our bodies. In these activities students explore the impressive force of air and ...

57. Sound

Sound is all about vibrations. The source of the sound vibrates, bumping into the air molecules nearby, which in turn bump into their neighbours and so forth. This results in a wave of vibrations through ...

58. Balance

You don't have to be a tightrope walker to do balancing tricks, but you do have to understand the role of an object's centre of gravity. In the following activities, students explore the conditions necessary ...

59. Current Electricity

Electric current is the flow of electrons through a completed circuit of conductors. It is used to power everything from our lights to our trains. In these activities, students will explore different kinds ...