Experience physics in action through hands-on activities, demonstrations, and experiments using familiar and old-fashioned toys. Students experiment with the forces of gravity and inertia while observing and manipulating materials. They will form and test their own hypotheses by using different toys in a series of experiments. Participants learn that about what sources of energy exist (electrical, chemical, physical), that energy can be transferred from one object to another through a collision experiment, and discuss the difference between potential and kinetic energy. The students will develop an understanding of Newton’s First Law (an object at rest stays at rest until you apply a force) by causing toys to move, demonstrate an understanding of the source of energy (electrical, chemical, physical) by choosing which type of energy causes specific toys to move, and develop an understanding between potential and kinetic energy by playing. Students make their own spinning toy project.

$15 per student.