PHYSICAL SCIENCE LINKS FOR PARENTS

Kindergarten Five Senses

  • Identify how we use energy (see light, hear sound, feel heat).
  • Identify objects according to their properties (taste, smell, and touch).
FIVE SENSES
Teaching Children about the Five Senses
Enseñando a sus niños sobre los 5 sentidos
 
SEE
Peripheral Vision
Las ilusiones revelan las suposiciones que hace el cerebro
 
HEAR
Listening Table
String Telephone
TASTE
Ice Cream
Tongue Map
Taste Vs. Smell
 
ALL ABOUT BRAINS
It's All in the Brain
Brains for Grownups
 

First Grade Chemistry

  • Identify uses of energy (heat changes objects).
  • Identify objects according to their physical properties.
  • Describe changes in matter.
Study the parts then make a simple dough
 
Flowing with the Current
Painting with Water
Making Bathtub Boats
Guessing What Floats
Sinking What Floats
 
Bubble Solutions
Bubble Explorations
Bubble Prints
Little Drops of Water
Bubble Geometry
Zlime
Butter
Bubble-Blowing Machine
Coloring Flowers
 
Color Exploration I
Color Exploration II

Second Grade Physics

  • Identify common types of energy and how we use them (light, sound, heat, electricity)
  • Describe an objects motion and how to affect its movement (magnetism).
LIGHT
From the San Diego Natural History Museum
  Visual Basics
  I Spy with My Eye Puzzle
  Local Eyes - Animal Senses




Bob Miller's Light Walk
Mixing Colors
Playing with Reflections
Making Hand Shadows
Making Shadow Puppets
Tracing Shadows



Arrows Optical Illusion
Interactive Optical Illusions
Postcard Illusions with Explanations
 
ELECTRICITY
Electric Gelatin
Snap Crackle Jump
 
SOUND
Musical Instruments to Make
Hunting for Sounds
Playing Marco Polo
Playing a Tube Tune



Bottle Hit and Blow
Clapping?  Where?
Guitar
Straw Kazoo
What is Sound?
Hear Sounds with Different Frequencies
What is the Doppler Effect?
More about the Doppler Effect
 
HEAT
Melting Ice Cubes
 
MAGNETISM
Fun with Magnets 

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Third Grade Physics

  • Describe an object's motion and how to affects its movement (simple machines, inertia, gravity, friction, air pressure, water pressure).
Physics:  Simple Machines and Aerodynamics
See What Makes a Home Run
Physics of Basketball
Science of Roller Coasters
Position, Velocity, and Accleration
What Happens When Things Collide?
Swinging Pendulums
 
AIR PRESSURE
Build the BEST Paper Airplane
Air...Putting It to Work
Air Power
Floating Balloons
Flying Paper Airplanes
 
Make Your Own Parachute
Hovercraft
Puff-Mobile
Puff-Mobile II
Air Lift
Balloon and Straw
Moving Cans
 
GRAVITY
Rolling Down Ramps
Dropping Objects
Rolling Down a Ramp
Rolling Down a Tube Track
Balancing on a Seesaw
 
Which Hits the Ground First?
Balls and Ramp
Egg Drop
Pencil Balance
Why Things Fall
Test Your Reaction Time
 
INERTIA
Flipping an Eraser
Pendulum Challenge
Tower of Coins
 
FRICTION
What is Friction?
Friction Experiment to Try
 
WATER PRESSURE
Under Pressure
Dancing Raisins
Boats Afloat
Flinker
Flinker II

Fourth Grade Chemistry

  • Describe objects according to their physical properties (viscosity, cohesion, density)
  • Describe changes that occur in matter.
  • Identify substances as they exist in different states of matter (solid, liquid, or gaseous).
Cornstarch and Water
Easy Putty
Science in the Home Activities
What's More Dense?
Cabbage Juice Indicator
Polishing Pennies
Drops on Pennies
Drops on Pennies II
 
Soft Water and Suds
Phases of Matter
Floating Paper Clips
Pennies and Water
Water Density
What's More Dense?

Fifth Grade Physics

  • Identify forms of energy and their effects on matter.
  • Identify examples of magnetism and gravity exerting force on an object.
LIGHT
Phenakistascope 
Blind Spot
Fading Dot Illusion~~it really works!!
Interactive Optical Illusions
The Temple Illusion
Postcard Illusions with Explanations
Fact Monster:  Light
 
SOUND
Glass Xylophone
Glass Xylophone II
What is Sound?
Hear Sounds with Different Frequencies
What is the Doppler Effect?
More about the Doppler Effect
Fact Monster:  Sound
HEAT
Keep a Cube
Hot Air Balloon
Fact Monster:  Heat
 
ELECTRICITY
Bending Water
Electrical Messages
Electroscope
Lemon Battery
Fact Monster:  Electricity
 
MAGNETISM
Background and Experiments
Fact Monster:  Magnetism

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Sixth Grade Chemistry

  • Compare physical properties.
  • Compare chemical and physical changes.

 

CHEMISTRY ACTIVITIES
CHEMISTRY BACKGROUND         

Seventh Grade Physics

  • Describe motion, direction, speed.
  • Explain inertia.
  • How does gravity affect objects on the Earth?
Average  vs. Instantaneous Speed
Newton's  Three Laws

Hockey  and Ice
Create  a raceway
Roller Coaster Applet
 
Kites and Kite Flying

Eighth Grade Physics

  • Distinguish between heat, chemical energy, mechanincal energy, and potential energy.
  • Explain energy transfers.

 

PENDULUMS
SOUND
LIGHT
HEAT
ELECTROMAGNETISM

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