What Happens When You Bring a Balloon Near Wall

Lesson Plan | June 2021

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about electrical interactions. The probe is designed to find out how students visually represent electrical interactions.

How does a model rocket lift off the ground?

Lesson Plan | October 2022

How does gravity affect objects?

Lesson Plan | October 2023

How Does a Rocket's Recovery System Deploy?

Lesson Plan | May 2022

Rubber Ducky Helps With Science

Journal Article | August 2021

Rainfall

Lesson Plan | December 2022

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about precipitation. The probe is designed to determine whether students understand what causes the water in clouds to fall as rain.

How Does the Hot Air Balloon Take Off?

Lesson Plan | May 2020

How Can We Protect Fragile Cargo?

Lesson Plan | July 2020

How can we use the patterns in motion we observed to explain how the JWST was launched into space?

Lesson Plan | October 2023

How did the solid and liquid propellants generate the right amount of thrust for each phase of the Ariane 5 + JWST system’s flight path?

Lesson Plan | June 2024

How do you launch a heavy object like the rocket carrying the JWST?

Lesson Plan | October 2023

Beyond the Notes: From Passive Collectors to Active Investigators

Blog Post | August 2026

How did the Ariane 5 rocket launch and deliver the JWST to L2?

Lesson Plan | June 2024

Why is the Water in the Glass?

Lesson Plan | June 2020