With just a few mirrors and some flashlights, students can make a copy machine, wonderful games, sculptures, and magical illusions. Bernie Zubrowski has designed more than fifty experiments, which are perfect for science projects and for understanding light in the real world. Your students will be thrilled to discover the exciting activities that can be done with balloons. You will be thrilled to know how many basic science principles they can learn in the process. Activities in Structures presents opportunities for learning fundamental scientific concepts and skills.
Students use straws for the three basic projects of building model houses, bridges, and towers.
They must isolate the essential members of a structure and analyze how these members interact with one another. The hands-on simple machines activities integrate math and science. They also discover mechanical engineering concepts through simple machines. This set is intended to expand on basic simple machines principles. By building and manipulating models, students investigate the properties of simple machines.