This series of labs is designed to explore physical science. It is designed like an engineering project to help students problem solve and create solutions based on knowledge and creative problem solving. Each lab will have a specific problem to be solved (example: build a toothpick bridge) with a design phase with questions to be answered, drawings to be done, and a testing phase to see how well the solution works. Then, students will create a presentation of their creation and send me (or show their parent) a recording via youtube or a personal recording.
This series of labs is designed to explore physical science. It is designed like an engineering project to help students problem solve and create solutions based on knowledge and creative problem solving. Each lab will have a specific problem to be solved (example: build a toothpick bridge) with a design phase with questions to be answered, drawings to be done, and a testing phase to see how well the solution works. Then, students will create a presentation of their creation and send me (or show their parent) a recording via youtube or a personal recording.
Materials: Unique to each lab, but most being household items
Homework: The entire project is all inclusive. The research, designs, building and testing phase should take a week with the reporting and presentation being the second week.