Need some activities to go along with your unit? A collection of hands-on activities from PBS offers opportunities to add to your electricity, sound, and force units. The electricity activities revolve around building a pinball-type game, the sound activities involve building string instruments to play a song, and the force activities deal with helium-filled balloons as blimps.

Concepts

electricity, sound, sound devices, force, technology resources

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Instructional Ideas

• Use the different activities within your own units on electricity, sound, and force
• Reinforce the activities with the video clips from the website

Classroom Considerations

• Need several materials to build each product

Pros

• The resources contain videos to introduce engineers and careers to the class
• Each activity comes with interdisplinary connections

Cons

• The activities in each category build upon each other, so to do the last activity, you must do the previous ones also