TryEngineering
Try Engineering: Getting Your Bearings
Students learn about teamwork and problem solving in this lesson that focuses on friction and how ball bearings are used to reduce it.
Teachers TryScience
Teachers Try Science: Let It Roll
Here's an easy experiment, using common household items, that will show you all ball bearings work.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Slingshot to the Outer Planets
Students are introduced to the engineering challenges involved with interplanetary space travel. In particular, they learn about the gravity assist or "slingshot" maneuver often used by engineers to send spacecraft to the outer planets....
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Investigating Speed and Velocity
In this investigation, young scholars will work in groups to design a model roller coaster, which will be used to clock the fastest speed for the rider (ball bearing/marble) The groups will build roller coaster models and modify and...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Fluid Viscosity
To give students a feeling for both what viscosity values are and how they are measured in the lab, they measure fluid viscosity by dropping ball bearings into graduated cylinders of fluids.
Famous Scientists
Famous Scientists: Sven Wingqvist
Learn about the Swedish engineer, inventor, industrialist, and one of the founders of one of the world's leading ball- and roller bearing makers.