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This activity is inquiry because students have likely never used this method for determining center of mass. The activity is also useful when building soda bottle rockets for estimating the center of pressure. Students…
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This lab is an inquiry activity if it is done before the discussion of how center of mass and balance are related. However, students should have an idea of what center of mass is before they start the lab. Students…
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This inquiry activity should be completed before students have learned about spring constants. It should be pointed out to students that if a rubber band or spring is stretched too much, the spring constant is not…
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Although this would not be considered a standard lab, it does help students with projects and other labs that involve the combinations of springs or rubber bands. Even if the activity is not used elsewhere, it allows…
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This activity is inquiry because students should not yet know the equation for centripetal force. Although they will not exactly derive the equation from this lab, they will determine that there is a direct relationship…
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This lab is not an inquiry activity but will help students understand the meaning of average velocity. Students do not easily understand from a textbook that an object’s velocity changes over a period of acceleration.…
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This activity is inquiry because students have not yet been exposed to the idea of gravitational potential energy being converted into kinetic energy. Students should be able to measure this by performing this activity…
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Teachers may want to show students a completed soda can vehicle because the written instructions can be difficult to follow for some students. These cans can travel a long distance (an entire school hallway is possible…
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In this lab, students will use a little background information about Bernoulli’s principle to figure out how the spinning of a moving ball affects its trajectory. The activity is inquiry in that students will be…
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In this lab, students will see that for any object that sinks, the object displaces more water when it is floating than when it is submerged. This lab is inquiry in that students do not know the answer to the question…
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This activity is inquiry in that the students do not know the answer to the question before they begin. Students will use the calibrated rubber band that they created in Lab 27: Spring Constants. They will see that an…
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This activity is inquiry in that students do not know the answer before they begin. If you were to poll the class before doing this activity, you would probably find that the hypotheses are split down the middle of the…
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In learning how this apparatus works, students will improve their understanding of action/reaction. This knowledge will also help students understand how a rocket engine works and many other important phenomena. Just as…
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This lab is not inquiry-based because the teacher must explain how to calculate pressure before doing the activity, but the lab gives students a great concept of what PSI means. They usually have no idea if 10 PSI is a…
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In this inquiry activity, students do not know the equation for pressure versus depth before beginning, but through guided activities they discover it themselves. This is a powerful way to get students to conceptually…
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