A 36-week program designed for Grades 4-7 that allows
students to discover forces of energy in our world
SCI-E - $115
Your Guidebook is HALF-PRICE with your package purchase!
Spend a year exploring energy -- heat, electricity,
magnetism and light. Easy-to-complete activities
are scheduled, but in addition, your student will
work through the Physics Solar Workshop. This
fantastic resource includes most of the supplies
your student needs to investigate how solar energy
affects our earth and can be harnessed as a power
source. This is an easy-to-complete program,
designed to complement the comprehensive nature
of our other programs. Can be completed in 2-5
hours per week. The only consumable is
#SCIJ-203.Energy Study Program Guide | SCIJ-101 | $22
Includes a 36-week schedule that coordinates the variety of resources included in this program. This guide is a schedule of the activities and resources designed as part of this course. It also includes student worksheets, quizzes and tests that are a necessary extension of the "Heat and Energy" resource. Click here for guide sample.
Heat & Energy | SCIJ-201 | $25
Have fun with heat, electricity, magnetism and light with hands-on activities and experiments. Presents thirty-five short lessons with accompanying discussion questions and interesting facts about each of the topics covered. Student worksheets, quizzes and tests that support this resource are included in the program guide.
Lesson titles: Forms of Energy The Earth's Magnetic Field Mechanical Energy Electromagnetism Chemical Energy Generators & Motors Nuclear Energy Waves Nuclear Weapons Electromagnetic Spectrum Thermal Energy Sound Waves Conduction Characteristics of Sound Convection Behavior of Sound Radiation Musical Instruments Solar & Geothermal Energy Light Electricity Color Conducting & Detecting Charge Reflection Lightning Mirrors Current Refraction Voltage & Power Lenses Serial & Parallel Circuits Using Energy: Final Project Magnetic Fields Conclusion Magnetic Materials
Awesome Experiments in Electricity & Magnetism | SCIJ-202 | $7
Over 70 experiments that explore electrical charges, static electricity, currents, circuits, switches, and magnetism. Each one includes a brief introduction, a list of materials, directions, and a scientific explanation of the results. Thought-provoking questions for further investigation appear in a "Check It Out" section. The experiments are informative and, given the readily available parts and simple assembly, occasionally amazing. The author's entertaining comments make it clear that science can be fun. The black-and-white illustrations will assist your students in constructing buzzers, "anti-gravity" disks, meters, and more.
Physics Solar Workshop | SCIJ-203 | $69
In one way or another, almost every form of energy we use originates as energy from the sun. Solar energy directly powers photovoltaic cells and thermal collectors. Indirectly, we get power from plants grown by the sun, oceans heated by the sun, and Earth's weather systems sustained by the sun. Even the energy stored in fossil fuels originated as energy from the sun, capture by plants and animals that died years ago. Physics Solar Workshop explores the topic of solar energy, focusing on photovotaic cells. By building 12 models and conducting 30 experiments, your student will learn how solar cells transform light into electrical energy, and how motors and mechanical devices can optimize the work done by this energy. Your student will build different types of vehicles and machines to demonstrate how gears can convert and transform power for different needs. ($7)
