NASA
(National Aeronautics and Space Administration) offers a plethora of free printable physics
lesson plans. Some must be ordered
but there are many free printable science activities are available online.
Concepts include space travel, solar system, robotics education, technology,
physics, astronomy and more. There are free printable solar
system physics activities featuring Disney Pixar's WALL-E called Mapping the Moon
with WALL-E. Click on the links "K-4 Guide" and "5-8 Guide"
for printable teacher materials and lesson plans. A popular free robotics
education activity is the Mission to Mars
Curiosity Rover packet that
include games, coloring pages, 3D models to cut and paste, quizzes, worksheets
and extensions,
Cornell University Cooperative
Extension partners with 4-H to provide 4-H Robotics education program. 4-H
Robotics education includes physics simulations, robotics education and
physical science games. There are hands-on and virtual online physical science
activities. There's a charge for materials but some free activities. These STEM
activities could be used for Destination Imagination programs.
The
SMILE program (from the Illinois Institute of Technology) is a warehouse
of free printable STEM
activities, robotics education activities and physics lesson plans, Science lesson plans cover basic physical
science concepts like weather, water, states of matter, Periodic Table of the
Elements, friction, gravity, mass, inertia, electricity and magnetism.
Smithsonian Science and Technology hasfree printable physics
lesson plans that correlate
with exhibits in the Smithsonian museums. There are many free printable
physical science activities on flight, aviation and rocketry.
The
Michigan Science Center offers free printable physical science activities to help students extend their experience at the
museum or use as stand-alone lessons. Activities are perfect for elementary
physics, science and machine technology classes. MIT is the leader in
universities of higher education in science. Here are free MIT video lectures, demonstrations and interviews that students could really benefit
from in their physical science studies. The Henry Ford has a huge collection
of free printable STEM
activities and educator resources on science, history and physics, from the Henry Ford Museum,
Greenfield Village and Rouge Factory in Dearborn, Michigan.