Physics Resources for 5th Grade

ThinkFun Gravity Maze Marble Run Logic Game

A STEM marble run and logic puzzle combined, challenging kids to build towers and solve 60 puzzles that teach spatial reasoning, planning, and engineering thinking.

Snap Circuits Classic SC-300 Electronics Kit

A hands-on electronics exploration kit with over 300 projects that teaches kids about circuits, electricity, and engineering through snap-together components.

Klutz LEGO Chain Reactions Craft Kit

The New Way Things Work

The information age is upon us, baffling us with thousands of complicated state-of-the-art technologies. To help make sense of the computer age, David Macaulay brings us The New Way Things Work. This completely updated and expanded edition describes...

Arduino Science Kit Physics Lab

The Arduino Education Science Kit Physics Lab provides middle schoolers (ages 11 to 14) with a hands-on experience, enabling them to explore forces, motion, and conductivity with their classmates. Students can make their own hypothesis like a real s...

Physics for Every Kid: 101 Easy Experiments in Motion, Heat, Light, Machines, and Sound

How do magnets work? What makes a curve ball curve? What keeps an airplane in the air? How can a pulley make you five times stronger? Now you can learn the answers to these and other questions about basic physics through 101 fun, safe, low-cost exper...

Physics: Why Matter Matters!

Basher Science: Physics, Why Matter Matters! created and illustrated by Simon Basher, Written by Dan Green: Imagine physics as a community full of wacky characters--the building blocks of the universe each with a unique personality. This book throws...

CircuitMess Clockstar 2.0 DIY Smartwatch Kit

A wearable-tech kit: students assemble a working Bluetooth smartwatch, then code timers, custom button functions and gyroscope-driven games for it.

Mystery Science

Open-and-go elementary science lessons built around real questions kids ask, with narrated videos and simple hands-on activities that need almost no parent prep.

PBS LearningMedia Science Collection

Thousands of free, NGSS-aligned science videos, simulations, and lesson plans for K-12 from PBS, NOVA, NASA, and GBH.

STEM Starters: Egg Drop Activity Kit

Can your students figure out a way to protect an egg when it's dropped from high above?

STEM Starters Activity Kit: Balloon Cars

Discover how to build a balloon-powered vehicle and get their problem-solving wheels turning with this hands-on project.

NASCAR Acceleration Nation

Collection of resources on NASCAR-themed units on aerodynamics and energy by Scholastic. Resources support the Next Generation Science Standards and cover topics such as potential and kinetic energy, friction, drag, downforce, and drafting. | http://...

Nasco Science Experiment Kits

Find a wide variety of science kits that will help kids learn physics, chemistry, astronomy, and much more.

Physical Science: Introduction to Gravity

Series of videos explaining the basics of gravity - what it is, how it affects planets and other celestial bodies, and the physics of falling objects....

‎Simple Machines

Features: Explore 6 simple machines: levers, pulleys, inclined planes, wedges, wheel and axles, and screws. Experiment with real world physics. Alter each machine. Learn about force and motion, actions and reactions, inputs and outputs, conserv...