 | POTENTIAL AND KINETIC ENERGY
BALLOON ROCKETS: Students discover the best way to convert potential energy into kinetic energy as they make a balloon zoom down a string with their own nozzle designs. (2nd through 6th grade) MAGIC TUBE: Using rocks, rubber bands and cardboard tubes, students discover a way to store elastic potential energy with a vehicle that will return when rolled away. (3rd through 6th grade) PUDDLE JUMPERS: Students discover how to change spinning kinetic energy into flight by making a simple helicopter. (2nd through 6th grade) PENDULUMS: In a interesting demonstration of periodic motion, students create simple pendulums and then develop strategies to attempt to make them swing at the same rate. Then they try their ideas outside on rope swings. (2nd through 6th grade) BOOMERANGS: Students learn about the 'flying sticks' invented by the natives of Australia. Students get to make their own soft spinning kinetic art forms. (2nd through 6th grade) CATAPULTS: Using craft sticks, rubber bands and low temperature glue guns, students learn a simple way of converting mechanical energy into kinetic energy by creating simple catapults that will launch pom-poms across the room. (2nd through 6th grade) ROLLER
COASTERS: In this lesson, split foam tubes, marbles and tape are the construction materials students
use to make roller coasters. In the process, they discover how potential energy can be repeatedly
converted into kinetic energy and back again. As well, they learn some of the actual dynamics of
roller coasters. (2nd through 6th grade) WATER ROCKETS: Using a novel form of potential energy, namely pressurized
air and water, students create and launch lightweight plastic rockets. They discover the best
proportions of water and pressurized air to launch their rockets the furthest distance. (2nd through 6th
grade) [Chemistry] [Earth and Life Science ] [Heat and Light] [Simple Machines] [Sound] [Potential and Kinetic Energy] [States of Matter] [Electricity and Magnetism ]
[ Home ] [ About ] [ Programs ] [ Curriculum ] [ Videos ] ROCK-IT SCIENCE
|
AMAZING
MAZES: Students build their own straw path that will conserve the potential energy of a marble for as
long as possible before it rolls off their tilted desk. (1st through 6th grade) 
2110 Walsh Ave. Suite F