CoolStuff Blogs

Our blogs are created with educators from around the country, and offer a fun and engaging way to discover new ideas and inspiration for your classroom.

A Better Gyroscope Wheel
A Better Gyroscope Wheel
In this CoolStuff post, James Lincoln, a high school physics teacher, uses a modernized Gyroscope Wheel to illustrate the concepts of precession and rotational inertia.
Standing Waves
Standing Waves
In this blog, Aaron Debbink walks you through a digital resource that gives students a conceptual understanding of “standing waves”.
Investigating Projectile Motion in a Controlled Environment
Investigating Projectile Motion in a Controlled Environment
This CoolStuff post walks you through an investigation for students to learn about projectile motion and several different lab challenges you can do with your students related to projectile motion.
Investigating the Scientific Method: A Better Black Box
Investigating the Scientific Method: A Better Black Box
Leverage a unique low-tech approach that allows students to leave their first day of class with the memorable experience of creating a model to explain their hypothesis.
Kinetic Energy and Velocity
Kinetic Energy and Velocity
Walk through an introductory physics lab that allows students to develop a model for the relationship between an object’s kinetic energy and velocity.
Forces and Motion
Forces and Motion
This CoolStuff post describes an introductory physics lab that allows students to develop a model of the relationship between an object’s acceleration and its mass using Newton’s 2nd law of...
Understanding the Relationship Between Mass and Weight
Understanding the Relationship Between Mass and Weight
Utilize a modeling method to help students differentiate between Mass and Weight
Representing Motion (Constant Velocity)
Representing Motion (Constant Velocity)
An easy way to introduce students to some of the different representations of motion is to have them investigate the motion of a Constant Velocity Car.
Demonstrating The Fundamentals of Electric Circuits
Demonstrating The Fundamentals of Electric Circuits
Create various circuits that cover the conservation of charge, the conservation of energy, the flow of current, and the concept of voltage.
Kinetic Energy Demonstrated With Newton's Cradle & Colliding Steel Spheres
Kinetic Energy Demonstrated With Newton's Cradle & Colliding Steel Spheres
Explore illustrations on how Newton's cradle utilizes the conservation of energy. These demonstrations allow for students to engage with the conversion of kinetic energy and visualize it in memorable way!...
Centripetal Force Demonstrated With a Twirling Tray
Centripetal Force Demonstrated With a Twirling Tray
When a bucket of water is swung in a horizontal circle will the water spill out of the bucket? View the concept of Centripetal Force on this CoolStuff Blog post.
7 Energy and Momentum Demos That Will  Engage Your Students!
7 Energy and Momentum Demos That Will  Engage Your Students!
Aside from the Newton’s Cradle and the Faith in Physics pendulum, there are not very many well known energy and momentum demonstrations. In this video and article I write to...
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