Science Reasoning Center


Links to Teacher Preview pages and the corresponding Student Activity in the Science Reasoning section are shown here. We began this project in the late Spring of 2023 and will continue working on it through much of 2023-24 school year in order to increase the number and the variety of activities. Stop back by often to find out what's new or visit our What's New? page for frequent updates.

 

Quick Links:

Kinematics | Newton's Laws | Vectors and Projectiles

Forces in Two Dimensions | Momentum | Work and Energy

Circular Motion and Gravitation | Rotation and Balance | Thermal Physics

Static Electricity | Electric Circuits | Magnetism and Electromagnetism

Vibrations and Waves | Sound and Music | Light and Color

 Reflection and Mirrors | Refraction and Lenses | Chemistry



 

 

1D-Kinematics

Kinematics




Velocity-Time Graph

 



Moving Cart on an Inclined Plane


 

Stopping Distance

 

 

 

Newton's Laws

Cart, Bricks and Bands



 

Fan Cart Study



 

Friction



 

Coffee Filter Physics Lab



 

Friction, Speed, and Stopping Distance

 

 

 

 

Vectors and Projectiles

Up and Down




Range of a Projectile

 


Ballistics


 

Juggling




 

Forces in Two Dimensions

Activities are being planned.

 

 

 

Momentum and Collisions

Marshmallow Launcher




Air Bag Inflation and Passenger Safety

 

 

Engineering Safer Helmets

 

 

Colliding Carts

 

 

Collisions

 




 

 

 

Work and Energy

Push the Plow



It's All Uphill



Energy on an Inclined Plane




Hot Wheels Stopping Distance



 

Modeling Roller Coasters



 

The Bat-Ball Collision

 

 

Energy Stored in Fields


 

Heating Curves (stored in our Thermal Physics section)



 

 

Circular Motion and Gravitation

Weightlessness Training




Roller Coaster Loops


 

Universal Gravitation



 

Kepler's Laws



 

Kepler's Law of Harmonies

 

 

 

Rotation and Balance

Activities are being planned.

 

 

Thermal Physics

Thermal Equilibrium



 

Heating Curves




Linear Expansion of Materials


 

 

 

Static Electricity

Charge Interactions





Sticky Tape Experiments

 


 

Energy Stored in Fields (from the Work and Energy section)

 


 

 

 

 

Electric Circuits

Light Bulb Resistance




Voltage, Current, and Resistance




Wire Gauge and Characteristics




Series and Parallel Circuits

 

 

 

 

Magnetism and Electromagnetism

Electricity and Magnetism - Part 1




Electricity and Magnetism - Part 2

 

 

Energy Stored in Fields (from the Work and Energy section)

 


 

 

 

Vibrations and Waves

Period of a Pendulum




Mass on a Spring


 

Wave Speed


Slinky Experiments


Standing Waves on a Rope

 

 

 

 

Sound Waves

Sound as a Pressure Wave



 

Intensity and the Decibel System





DeciBels, Phons, and Sones




The Sound of Music

 

 

 

 

Light and Color

Models of Light




Electromagnetic Radiation



 

Electromagnetic Spectrum


Light Intensity



Communicating with Electromagnetic Waves



 

Digitized Data



 

Shedding Light on Light Bulbs

 



 

Reflection and Mirrors

Concave Mirrors




Object-Image Relationships


 

Refraction and Lenses

Snell's Law




Reflection and Transmission



Lens Magnification Lab

 

 

Chemistry

The Periodic Table, Elements, and Their Bonds


 

The Periodic Table, Ions, and Ionic Compounds

 


Periodic Trends

 

 

Chemical Reactions




Intermolecular Forces


 

Melting Points and Boiling Points


 

Bond Energy and Reactions


 

Reaction Rates


 

The Ammonia Factory




Stoichiometry




Nuclear Chemistry

 







This is an ongoing project that will continue at least through the 2023-24 school year. There are many more planned. Please check back.