In this activity, we will demonstrate the essence of mixing through an activity of blending a couple of colored dough balls. You will learn how blending these balls can be accomplished by simply following the fundamental actions of mixing processes: repeated stretching and folding.
From airplanes and spaceships to balloons and frisbees, flight is an important part of today’s society. This activity builds and experiments with bottle rockets, the perfect model for investigating what aerospace engineering is all about. After reviewing how to build the bottle rocket, this video details a setup you can use to test what forces, materials, and designs maximize airtime. So at the end of the day, here’s the question: how high can you fly?
Large oil spills have been a common environmental problem for decades affecting wildlife, beaches and water sources. Environmental engineers have come up with many creative solutions to clean up these spills. WPI Engineering Ambassadors will tell you about some of these solutions and then you can try to clean up your own oil spill at home
This hands-on activity walks through paper chromatography, a technique used by chemists to separate mixtures or in forensic crime analysis to investigate evidence. Paper chromatography can be applied outside of the lab too! Here, we use the method to show what types of dyes make up different colored markers. Is purple truly made of red and blue?
In this activity, elementary students will learn how to make lenses out of water droplets to magnify words and images! This module will provide a gentle and fun introduction to the basics of optics and their applications.
This activity is related to the lift force.
You only need a piece of paper to try it!
This activity is related to electrostatic force.
You will need: A water bottle, 2 straws and a paper towel.
NASA uses robotic arms to explore places can’t visit yet, like Mars. Now it is your turn to design and build a Robo Arm that you can use to lift a cup off a table!
In this challenge from Design Squad, build a dance pad that lets you use your feet to sound a buzzer or flash a light!
Want to learn more about physics from the comfort of your own home? All you need is a ruler and your thinking cap! Watch Professor Kafle demonstrate this interesting phenomenon that seems like magic but is actually just physics. All you need to participate is a ruler with a smooth surface.
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