Here are middle school lessons I have put together for our co-op using Secrets of the Universe series by Paul Fleisher. I started with Objects in Motion:
- Physics with Secrets of the Universe
- Ellipses
- Pendulums
- Towers and Parachutes
- Laws of Motion
- Universal Gravitation
- Conservation of Momentum
- Angular Momentum with Zomes
The next book we tackled was Liquids and Gases: Principles of Fluid Mechanics. This book has a lot of great physics concepts! We used more of the white board and computer simulations, though we had some great hands-on activities as well. This is what we covered:
- Density and Archimedes Principle
- Pascal and Liquid Pressure
- Charles, Boyle, Divers, and Balloons
- Bernoulli with a Hair Dryer
This year we are using Middle School Chemistry with our co-op, so first our family is going through Matter and Energy: Principles of Matter and Thermodynamics. It makes a great transition.
- Lavoisier and the Law of Conservation of Matter
- Chemical Proportions and Electrolysis (Proust, Dalton, and Gay-Lussac)
- Mendeleyev's Periodic Law
- The First Law of Thermodynamics (Conservation of Energy with Huygens, Count Rumford, and Joule)
- The Second Law of Thermodynamics (Entropy with Clausius, Lord Kelvin, and Carnot)
