Projectile Motion and Experimental Design
Hands-On Activities and Videos for Middle School Science
Watch Promo
- a demonstration of the activity
- extensions for students who want to dig deeper
- hints and strategies for preparing each lesson
- list of materials
- straight-forward directions
- questions and writing prompts
- explanations for the students and teacher
- Straight-forward without being simplistic
- Written to students; designed to be print-and-go.
- Watch experiments; read directions; access background information.
Your Instructor
I started my career as a high school physics teacher. Then I entered the field of museum education at the National Air and Space Museum (part of the Smithsonian Institution) where I wrote science education materials and ran teacher workshops. When my children were born, I left the workforce and when they were little, our family got involved with a school start up. My children grew and with them, the school; I volunteered on a weekly basis, running science experiments for my son's class and joined the faculty as the middle school science teacher when the seventh grade was added. Now I write full-time, working to publish the curriculum I developed while I was teaching. Each online course is a unit of study from a hands-on, laboratory-experience perspective. Each activity has a video and written instructions so you'll be thoroughly prepared to teach them.
What's included:
- Videos demonstrating each of the lab investigations.
- Accompanying written instructions for each lab.
- A forum for asking questions and sharing with other teachers.
- Guidance for writing formal lab reports.
- Scaffolded writing prompts.
- Answer keys to help with assessing student work.