Why Gravity Rocks
An Exciting Earth Exploration Designed and Facilitated by STEMAZing Teacher Leaders
Jennifer Kernan and Katie Berghoefer
How has gravity impacted your day? Through critical thinking and problem solving, educators will receive tools to enhance Earth and Space sciences within their classrooms. In this training, participants will engage in minds-on and hands-on activities, experimental ideas, and games. Participants also got the opportunity to explore the STEMAZing Spacetime Simulator and borrow it for classroom use.
Gravity Rocks Lessons and Resources
Balloon Rocket
Let students use the engineering design process to improve their balloon rockets that race across the room ...
Dark Side of the Moon Video
From MinutePhysics, the dark side of the moon misconception explained in 10 seconds ...
Egg Parachute
Another engineering design challenge but this time the winner is whoever is the slowest! Let students iterate through designs to create egg parachutes which take the longest to fall from a given height ...
Engineering Design Process
This version of the Engineering Design Process from NC State is based on Engineering is Elementary ...
Globe at Night
Activity guide for January and February 2017 for this awesome citizen science program. Find additional activity guide and resources at www.globeatnight.org ...
GoNoodle
Get kids moving with GoNoodle - hundreds of videos which can be used for active brain breaks. Research supports movement and activity contributing to focus and learning. Get a FREE teacher account! ...
Homemade Spectroscope
Using a paper towel tube and a CD, make a spectroscope - an instrument for splitting light into its component colors ...
Matrix of Crosscutting Concepts from NSTA
A look at the Crosscutting Concepts from K-12 so educators can see the progression ...
Moon Phase Experiment
Turn a foam ball on the end of a pencil into the moon using a flashlight to see the phases ...
Prompts for Integrating Crosscutting Concepts Into Assessment and Instruction
Prompts for both formative and summative assessment for each of the crosscutting concepts. Great for thinking about the questions you ask students as they are doing science and engineering projects. STEM Tool #41 from STEM ...
Spacetime Simulator
You can make your own or borrow one from The STEMAZing Project if you attended this workshop. The spacetime simulator demonstrates how Einstein described gravity - masses warping spacetime and drawing other masses into the ...
STEMAZing Journal Hack
Make graph paper STEMAZing journals that require no staples or tape using an old bookbinding trick ...
Tidal Locking
Why do we only see one side of the moon? This MinuteEarth video answers that question ...
University of Kentucky Real Curriculum
The Realistic Explorations in Astronomical Learning (REAL) Curriculum is an integrated mathematics science curriculum designed by Dr. Jennifer Wilhelm and Dr. Ron Wilhelm. REAL is designed for use at the middle school level. You will ...
What Do You Do With a Problem
What do you do with a problem? Especially one that follows you around and doesn't seem to be going away? Do you worry about it? Ignore it? Do you run and hide from it? This ...
