PBS
Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Indoor Slingshot
Build your own launchers to play carnival-style games using things like toilet paper rolls and rubber bands.
PBS
Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Robo Wheel
Make your own Robo Wheel to race or do freestyle tricks using simple household items like paper bowls, string, and rubber bands.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Strum Along
Music and sound are two different concepts that share much in common. Determining the difference between the two can sometimes be difficult due to the subjective nature of deciding what is or is not music. The goal of this activity is to...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Investigating Sounds: Identifying Vibration, Pitch, and Volume
In this investigation, students will observe and experiment with how sounds are made. They will use various elementary music instruments as well as tuning forks, combs, rubber bands, books, bottles, etc. They will collect data on how...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: What's Hiding in the Air?
Students develop an understanding of the effects of invisible air pollutants with a rubber band and hanger air test and a bean plant experiment. They also learn about methods of reducing invisible air pollutants.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Super Slinger Engineering Challenge
Students are challenged to design, build and test small-scale launchers while they learn and follow the steps of the engineering design process. For the challenge, the "slingers" must be able to aim and launch Ping-Pong balls 20 feet...
Other
Science Museum of Minnesota: Wild Music: Sound Activities: Making Vocal Chords
Directions for making a simple model of vocal chords. All you need is a plastic cup, a rubber band, and a straw.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Simple Machines
Through a five-lesson series with five hands-on activities, students are introduced to six simple machines - inclined plane, wedge, screw, lever, pulley, wheel-and-axle - as well as compound machines, which are combinations of two or...
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Pbs Kids: Design Squad Challenge: Roving on the Moon (Pdf) [Pdf]
Hands-on challenge to build a rubber band-powered cardboard car (rover) that can scramble across the room. Provides full list of materials with ideas on how to build, test, evaluate, and redesign the car if necessary. Activity focuses on...
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Pbs Kids: Design Squad Challenge: Paddle Power [Pdf]
Hands-on challenge to design and build a paddle boat that moves across water using a rubber band as its power source. Provides full list of materials with ideas on how to design, build, test, and redesign it if necessary. Activity...
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Ucar: Ozone Attack
In this activity, students observe how rubber bands deteriorate, developing cracks or pits, in locations with different ozone levels.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: How Does Nature Know Which Way Is Forward?
Through critical thinking, learners realize that spontaneous events happen in a certain order. This lesson presents an examination of the Second Law of Thermodynamics using a thought story, rubber band inquiry, discrepant event and lecture.
Center of Science and Industry
Cosi Columbus: Big Wave
Investigate the behavior of a string of rubber bands and clips, and discover why it produces patterns of movement called waves. Includes full list of materials, procedures, and scientific explanation of what causes different types of waves.
Center of Science and Industry
Cosi Columbus: Rubberband Rollback
A simple experiment that explores potential and kinetic energy involving the use of a can, a rubber band, some washers, and other everyday materials. Discover why the can rolls forward, then back.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: How Far?
To learn how friction affects motion, students explore how different textures provide varying amounts of friction to objects moving across them. They build a tool to measure the amount of friction between a note card and various surfaces...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: I Don't Believe My Eyes!
Students develop their understanding of the effects of invisible air pollutants with a rubber band air test, a bean plant experiment and by exploring engineering roles related to air pollution. In an associated literacy activity,...
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Balloon & Straw Experiment
Investigate air pressure, motion and the forces of air currents using a bendy straw, a balloon and a rubber band.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Spool Racer Experiment
Demonstrate stored and kinetic energy by making a racer toy from a spool and a rubber band.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Make a Guitar, Vibration Experiment
Experience how vibrations make sound by constructing a guitar using rubber bands and a cereal box.
K-5 Math Teaching Resources
K 5 Math Teaching Resources: Coordinate Grid Geoboards [Pdf]
An activity dealing with making a polygon and getting their coordinates. Materials needed: geoboards, rubber bands, coordinate grid paper and rulers.
K-5 Math Teaching Resources
K 5 Math Teaching Resources: Symmetry on the Geoboard [Pdf]
An activity for students to work with symmetry on a geoboard. Materials needed: geoboards, rubber bands, and geoboard recording paper.
K-5 Math Teaching Resources
K 5 Math Teaching Resources: Congruent Eighths [Pdf]
This activity could be used to introduce the concept of congruence. You will need the following materials: geoboards, rubber bands, and geoboard recording paper.
Crayola
Crayola: Fun in the Sun Visors
This activity shows children how to make sun visors using simple paper plates, markers, and a rubber band.