In preparing for Middle School Chemistry with our co-op our family we are going through Matter and Energy: Principles of Matter and Thermody...

If you scuba dive, you know these gentlemen; even paramedics are taught their laws when learning about diving-related emergencies. They ...

Chapter 2 of Liquids and Gasses has lots of fun water experiments.  Because the weather was not conducive to being in it, we used the bat...

Eureka!  The Archimedes Principle is about density and buoyancy, but this is one section of the book where the demonstrations did not look ...

The final section of Objects in Motion is about angular momentum.  We read this section and discussed how points farther from the center mo...

Objects in Motion , Chapter 5 part 1, Conservation of Momentum. I turned to a favorite book of mine, Gizmos and Gadgets , and found a b...

Objects in Motion , Chapter 4, The Law of Universal Gravitation. This chapter brings together Kepler, Galileo, and Newton, especially the ...

Chapter three of Objects in Motion is Newton's Three Laws of Motion.  I collected several different demonstrations for this class, and ...

Week 3 introduces us to the famous legend of Galileo dropping objects from the Tower of Pisa.  We completed the student exploration guide ...

Our third week of co-op we performed the pendulum experiment described in the book.  We had three fishing weights (labeled 1, 2, and 3), thr...

We are working our way through Objects in Motion: Principles in Classical Mechanics by Paul Fleisher. The first lesson is about Kepler'...

This year we are focusing on physics, and I found a great series of books to introduce middle school students to the subject.  I am using it...