K-12 STEM EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES -- NGSS ACTIVITIES

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Mass Volume Density

Scientific Notation and Units and Measurement

• Introduction to Scientific Notation
• Scientific Notation Generator
• How to Multiply in Scientific Notation
• How to Divide in Scientific Notation
• Word Problems using Scientific Notation
• Units of Measurement
• Gates Project -- Central Park, New York City -- Art -- Mathematics -- Technology

Force --Work -- and Energy

• Speed, Velocity and Acceleration -- Graphing Velocity and Acceleration
• What is Force -- How to Measure Force, What is Friction -- Assessment Activities
• What is a Vector? What is a Scalar Quantity? Test Your Understanding
• What are Newtons Three Laws of Motion?
• Introduction to Energy -Types of Energy -- Sources of Energy
• Definitions for Work, Energy and Power-- What is the Work-Energy Principle
• Gravity, Mass and Weight

Energy in Motion

• What is heat? What is temperature? How is heat transferred?
• Why do metals conduction electricity and heat? What metals conduct the best?
• How does a battery work? Chemical Reactions in Batteries. Volta's first battery.

Properties of Waves

• What is the difference between longitudinal and transverse waves?
• What are electromagnetic waves?
• What are seismic waves? What are the different types of seismic waves?

Electricity, Magnetism and Electromagnetism

• Electricity and Magnetism Home
• Electric Charge
• Coulombs Law and Inverse Square Law
• Static Electricity
• The Flow of Electricity
• Electric Current
• Electric Circuits
• Electric Power
• The Nature of Magnets
• Earth as a Magnet
• Magnetism in Action
• Magnetism from Electricity
• Electricity from Magnetism
• How do Transformers Work?
• Ohms Law Lab
• Magnetic Forces Lab
• Why Metals Conduct Electricity
• How does a Battery Work
• How does an Electric Motor Work

Science and Technology of Fluids

• What are fluids? What is Rheology? Static and Dynamics of Fluids
• What is pressure? What is Atmospheric Pressure? What is Vapor Pressure?
• What is Hydrostatic pressure --What is the relation between fluid pressure and depth
• What is surface tension? What is capillary action? Why is capillary action important to plants?
• Pascal's principle and Hydraulics. How do hydraulics work?
• What is the difference between adhesion and cohesion?
• What is viscosity? How is viscosity measured? What is the difference between Newtonian and Non-Newtonian Fluids?
• What is humidity? What is relative humidity? What is a psychrometer? How is humidity measured?
• Who was Archimedes? What is buoyancy? What is the formula for Archimedes Principle?
• What is Bernoulli's Principle? What are some factors that enter in lift of an airplane?
• Food Technology -- How does starch and other food thickening agents work?

Solutions Suspension Colloids and Food Technology

• Solutions -- What are solutions, examples of solutions, strength of solutions, what is the universal solvent?
• What are suspensions, emulsions and colloids. Examples of colloids.
• Summary Sheet for Solutions, Suspensions and Colloids
• Student Assessment for Solutions, Suspensions and Colloids
  
• What are Hydrocolloids?
• Hydrocolloids in Cooking and the Food Industry

Simple Machines

• The Lever
• The Screw
• The Wedge
• The Incline Plane
• The Wheel and Axle
• The Pulley
• What is Mechanical Advantage
• Assessment Test

Atomic and Chemical Properties

• What is the Structure of the Atom? How are electrons organized around the nucleus?
• What are atomic orbitals? 3D interactive images of atomic orbitals using Jmol. 
• What are elements? What is the Periodic Table of Elements?
• Chemical Bonding -- Ionic, Covalent and Hydrogen Bonds
• What is a Chemical Formula?
• Hydrogen Bonds in Water
• What is a Physical Change?
• What is a Chemical Change?
• What is Ph?
• Assessment -- Chemical OR Physical Change
  
• What are the 4 states of Matter? What is the 5th State of Matter?
• K-12 Molecular Modeling Activity -- A STEM Activity
• K-12 Molecular Modeling Part II -- Difference between water and ice -- Difference between graphite and diamond

Properties of Carbon

• The Carbon Atom
• The Carbon Molecule
• Carbon the Element
• The Graphene Molecule -- A 3D Perspective using Jsmol
• What are Fullerenes? What is the diameter of a Buckyball?
• Why is the fullerene molecule and similar structures the cornerstone of nanotechnology?
• The Carbon Molecule 3D Perspectives using Jmol
• Carbon Fuels
• Simple Carbon Compounds
• Why is Diamond hard and Graphite soft if both are pure carbon?
• Why is Carbon Monoxide so dangerous?
• What is the difference between pure carbon compounds -- Carbyne and Graphene?
• What is Soap and how does it work?

What is the difference between water and ice?

• What are the basic properties of water and ice?
• Why is water such a good solvent?
• Can ice evaporate? What is sublimation?
• What is the structure of water and ice?
• Why does ice float?
• What is a water dimer?
• Water molecules in motion...

Living Systems

• What is the human genome and how big is it?
• What is the difference between sexual and asexual reproduction?
• How are living things classified?
• Where is food digested?
• What is gluten, gluten sensitivity and celiac disease?
• How do drugs work?
• Why do carcinogens cause cancer? A molecular view.
• What are the components of blood?
• What-are-the-parts-of-the-heart?
• How does the heart work?
• What is the path blood takes through the circulatory system?

Earth Systems

• Layers of the Earth -- What are the different types of Seismic Waves
• What causes precipitation? What causes it to rain or snow? What causes dew on the ground?
• What is the Coriolis Effect?
• What are seismic waves? What are the different types of seismic waves?
• What is Humidity? How is Humidity Measured?
• What causes precipitation --( rain or snow)?
• Where is the Earth in the Solar System? Why is there life on earth?
• Science behind el Nino and la Nina

Alternative Sources of Energy

• Introduction -- What are the different types of energy? Kinetic vs. Potential Energy
• Wind Energy
• Geothermal Energy
• Hydropower as Fuel
• Nuclear Energy
• Biomass for Fuel

Nanotechnology

• What is nanotechnology?
• Nanotechnology Home Page
• Atomic Force Microscope
• Nanomedicine
• Mechanosynthesis
• Molecular Assembler
• Nanotechnology Journals and Review Articles
• Molecular Engineering
• Graphene Applications
• Molecular Nanotechnology
• Nanorobotics
• What is a Nanometer?
• What is a Nanocar?
• Scanning Tunneling Microscope
• Self Assembly
• Supramolecular Chemistry
• The carbon molecule
• Buckyball -- Fullerene

Robotics

• Robots -- History and Development
• What is Robotics
• Types of Robots
• Ways to Use Robots
• What is Cybernetics
• Artificial Intelligence
• Nanorobotics
• Telerobotics
• Robotics Timeline
• Robotic Spacecrafts
• Space Probes
• NASA Robot Links
• Domestic Robots
• Robotic Surgery
• Robot Assisted Heart Surgery
• Military Robots
• Predator Drone
• Foster-Miller Talon

MathMol -- Mathematics and Molecules

MathMol Home Page -- 2022 Version

• Activity 1: Measuring length and distance at the molecular level
• Activity 2: Geometry-of-1-Dimension
• Activity 3: Geometry of 2- Dimensions
• Activity 4: Geometry of 3-Dimensions
• Activity 5: Introduction to Molecular Modeling using Jsmol
• Activity 6: The Geometry of Crystals
• Activity 7: Summary Sheet by Students
• Activity 8: What is the Geometry of the Methane Molecule
• Activity 9: Geometry of the Crystal Structure of Ice
• Activity10:Geometry of the Benzene Molecule

Integrated Math and Science Labs-- Mathematical Relations and Science Principles

• About these labs: Mathematical relationships in science
• What are the different types of mathematical relationships?
• What is the relationship between how much a spring stretches and the force pulling on the spring? --The Spring Constant
• What is the relationship between the period of a pendulum and the length of the string of  the pendulum?
• What is the relationship between the mass of a ball and its volume assuming a constant density?
• What is the relationship between the volume of a liquid and its density.
• What is the relationship between the intensity of a beam of light and the distance from a light source?
• What is a the relationship between how the distance travels and the time in travel for an accelerating object?
• What is the relationship between how much light passes through a Polaroid filter and the angle the filter is rotated?
• What is the relationship between the decay of radioactive material and the time allowed for the decay?  
• What is the relationship between current, voltage when there is a constant resistance in an electric circuit.
• What is the relationship between how far water squirts out of a hole in a container and the depth of the hole beneath the water?
• What is the relationship between the distance between two magnets  and the force between them? Attractive and Repulsive Forces
• What is the relationship between the height  that a ball bounces and the number of times it bounces? --Damping Motion
• What is the relationship between the volume of a boat and the weight it can hold?

Beyond the Earth

• Introduction to the Solar System
• An Overview of the Solar System -- Galileo's telescope, how was the solar system formed?
• The Sun -- how big is the sun? What are sunspots? How hot is the sun? What is solar weather?
• Mercury -- How big is mercury? What is the surface of mercury like?
• Venus -- How big is the planet Venus? What is the surface of Venus like?
• The Earths Moon -- What is the distance from the Earth to the Moon? What is the surface of the moon like?
• Mars -- How big is mars? What is the surface of mars like?
• Asteroid Belt -- How many are there? What are they named after?
• The planet Jupiter -- How big is Jupiter? What are the moons of Jupiter? How much gravity does Jupiter have?
• Saturn -- How big is Saturn? What are the rings of Saturn... What are the moons of Saturn like?
• The planet Uranus -- How big is it? Does it have rings? How many moons does Uranus have?
• Neptune --How big is Neptune? What is the surface of Neptune like?
• Pluto -- Is Pluto really a planet? How big is Pluto? Does Pluto have any moons?
• What is a comet? Where are they in the Solar System?
• What is the Kuiper Belt? How many objects are in the Kuiper belt and how big are they?
• What is the Oort Cloud? Where is the Oort cloud and how did it start?
• How big is the Milky Way? Where is the Earth in the Milky Way Galaxy?
• What is Helium-3 and why is it so important?
• What is Dark Energy and Dark Matter?
• Life of a Star
• What are black holes, wormholes and white holes?
• Videos of black holes and worm holes

Forensic Science

• About Forensic Science 
• Forensic Chemisty
• Forensic Toxicology
• Forensic Pathology
• Forensic Psychology 
• Forensic Dentistry
• Forensic Photography
• Forensic Entomology
• Forensic Archaeology
• Forensic Anthropology
• Fingerprinting 
• Genetic DNA Fingerprinting
• Gas Chromatrography
• FTIR
• Science of Fingerprinting
• Handwriting Analysis
• DNA Forensic Science -- Genome Project
• Taking Legible Fingerprints
• Science Technician 
• Forensic Science 
• Forensic Science Technician