Make Speed and Acceleration Labs Fun with Pullback Cars! Are you looking for ways to teach speed and acceleration, including their relationship to mass, potential and kinetic energy? Are you teaching the Laws of Motion and NGSS MS-PS2-2? This standard states: “plan an investigation to provide evidence that the change in an object’s motion depends…
Teaching About Balanced and Unbalanced Forces Teaching a “balanced and unbalanced forces” unit(MS-PS2-2) is so much more engaging when students do activities using the features on their iPads! My middle schoolers have a blast using the slow motion feature on their iPad cameras to capture what they call “things smashing into each other”. They are…
Go Outdoors on an Exciting Schoolyard Ecosystem Scavenger Hunt! Are you looking for a way to get students observing their local ecosystem? Do you love taking classes outside? Here is a way to go on a fun scavenger hunt that involves students bringing their devices that have cameras outside! I put together this scavenger hunt…
Give Your Students a Measurement Review with these 10 Fun Activities Are you finding that middle school students seem to lack basic measurements skills in spite of us reviewing and reinforcing this as we head back to school every year? I can’t tell you how many times I’ve had middle schoolers measure from the end…
