Physical Science

This is a video that discusses what sound its, how it travels, and why we can or cannot hear it.  The video also discusses how the ear receives and translates the sound.

Here is a handout to give students when they are about to do a science experiment.  It will help them focus on the procedure of the scientific method.

It's all about attraction.  This video discusses covalent and ionic bonding as well as the more basic structure of atoms and molecules.

This "Its OK to be Smart" video discusses why our bodies feel cold.  Students will learn that it is all about heat transfer.  The video will discuss convection, radiation, conduction, temperature, thermometers, matter, atoms, The Second Law of Thermodynamics, and why we would freeze in space.

This music video can bring some joy to your lesson about light, gravity, waves, and the big bang as they listen to a parody of the Lion King song, The Circle of Life.

In this science video, Veritasium does a fantastic job interviewing the public to see if they know what it actually means to be a solid, liquid or a gas.  It is fun to watch people try to remember from their schooling what the scientific answer is.  This would be a great video to show when introducing 3 of the 4 states of matter to your chemistry or physical science students.

In this science lab, students will gain a pretty good understanding of what mass, volume, and density are. They will digitally change the volume of objects, weigh different object masses, and calculate the densities of each object. Students will use the computer and the Phet Simulation software to complete this lab.

I built my own laser light sound visualizer. Using a tone generator and multiple tones you can create some awesome light patterns. We showed this to all of our physical science classes. The excitement of our classes was pretty cool. Many students stopped to take pictures of the oscillator and talked about building their own. The cost of the contraption was hardly anything, just the laser light.

I blame the Coronavirus for causing boredom which in turn caused me to play with making a video for my students. In this episode, El Guapo is introduced and joins Mr. Weir in Spain to teach a cool science concept about air pressure.