Sarah Kay reads Laura Lamb Brown-Lavoie's poem, "On This the 100th Anniversary of the Sinking of the Titanic, We Reconsider the Buoyancy of the Human Heart"

A birthday party isn’t complete without cake, music and drama! This lesson will introduce the most common types of contact forces encountered in Physics.

Definitions included: contact force, normal force, friction force, static...

How does a small life vest keep a large human from drowning? Discover how life vest manufacturing uses physics to keep us safe in water.

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You throw a rock in water from your boat. Can you figure out what happens to the water level?

Archimedes is not just the owl from the Sword in the Stone. Although that's a sweet movie if you haven't seen it. He was also an old Greek dude who figured out a bunch of physics way before other people did. Some of this was discovered...

This live-action video program is about the word Density. The program is designed to reinforce and support a student's comprehension and retention of the word Density through use of video footage, photographs, diagrams and colorful,...

In this video, we learn how to determine if a block of wood will float without placing it in water. This demonstrates the relationship between density and whether an object will sink or float.<b<br/>r/>

Metric Mass and Volume part 7/10

It's time to set sail! Even if you live nowhere near a lake or ocean, you will get to do some sailing in this science activity as you build your own toy sailboat. But first, you have to make sure your boat doesn't capsize! Are you up for...

Upon viewing the Forces in Fluids video series, students will be able to do the following: Define fluids as substances that can easily flow and readily change shape. Explain that fluids flow because particles can easily move past each...