PSI: Teacher Resources / WVIZ.org

PSI - Physical Science Investigation -is a series of physical science video lab experiments aligned with the Ohio Science Academic Content Standards for grades 6-8.

In this teacher resource area, for each experiment you will find a lesson plan, additional resources, and two types of video for you to review before conducting a lesson: a professional development video as well as all of the student video segments you will show from the main PSI page in the classroom.

To get started, watch the introductory video on the right or just go ahead and click on one of the tabs above in order to gain access to all the resources herein.

PSI INTRODUCTION VIDEO

INSTRUCTIONS: Click on thumbnail or experiment title to view videos, lesson plans, and additional resources.

Balancing Act
EXPERIMENT TITLE: Balancing Act

SCIENCE CONCEPT(S): Air has mass.

Breaking News
EXPERIMENT TITLE: Breaking News

SCIENCE CONCEPT(S): Air exerts a force called pressure. Understanding the need to identify and control variables.

How Egg-Sighting
EXPERIMENT TITLE: How Egg-Sighting

SCIENCE CONCEPT(S): Air pressure, unbalanced forces

Bottled Up
EXPERIMENT TITLE: Bottled Up

SCIENCE CONCEPT(S): Air has mass and volume. Effect of pressure on the inside and outside of a closed system.

Can It Be?
EXPERIMENT TITLE: Can It Be?

SCIENCE CONCEPT(S): Air generates pressure in all directions.

What’s The Deal?
EXPERIMENT TITLE: What’s The Deal?

SCIENCE CONCEPT(S): Air has mass. Air exerts pressure in all directions.

What’s The Point?
EXPERIMENT TITLE: What’s The Point?

SCIENCE CONCEPT(S): Relationship between temperature, volume, and pressure in a closed system.

Clearing It Up
EXPERIMENT TITLE: Clearing It Up

SCIENCE CONCEPT(S): Air pressure influences the formation of clouds in the atmosphere.

Blown Away
EXPERIMENT TITLE: Blown Away

SCIENCE CONCEPT(S): Air has mass. Air exerts a force called air pressure. Air can be used to transfer energy. Air contains molecules that transfer energy. Air contains molecules that transfer energy through vibration and collision.

What’s The Difference?
EXPERIMENT TITLE: What’s The Difference?

SCIENCE CONCEPT(S): Differences in air pressure cause air to move.

INSTRUCTIONS: Click on thumbnail or experiment title to view videos, lesson plans, and additional resources.

Red, Wet, And Blue
EXPERIMENT TITLE: Red, Wet, And Blue

SCIENCE CONCEPT(S): Temperature affects the volume of air. Colder water sinks and warmer water floats.

It’s In The Bag
EXPERIMENT TITLE: It’s In The Bag

SCIENCE CONCEPT(S): Relationship between hot temperature and air.

Sink Or Swim?
EXPERIMENT TITLE: Sink Or Swim?

SCIENCE CONCEPT(S): Relationship between density, mass, and volume.

Oh Buoy!
EXPERIMENT TITLE: Oh Buoy!

SCIENCE CONCEPT(S): Density is the relationship between mass, volume, and the shape of an object.

Fill ‘er Up
EXPERIMENT TITLE: Fill ‘er Up

SCIENCE CONCEPT(S): Conservation of mass not conservation of volume. Particle nature of matter

What Does It Matter?
EXPERIMENT TITLE: What Does It Matter?

SCIENCE CONCEPT(S): Relationship between mass and volume.

INSTRUCTIONS: Click on thumbnail or experiment title to view videos, lesson plans, and additional resources.

Wheeling Around
EXPERIMENT TITLE: Wheeling Around

SCIENCE CONCEPT(S): Inertia and kinetic energy

Big Deal
EXPERIMENT TITLE: Big Deal

SCIENCE CONCEPT(S): Properties of water, surface tension

Fast Food
EXPERIMENT TITLE: Fast Food

SCIENCE CONCEPT(S): Inertia and the laws of motion for matter.

Eggs-treme Impact
EXPERIMENT TITLE: Eggs-treme Impact

SCIENCE CONCEPT(S): Objects traveling at a high rate of speed have a great deal of energy and are not easily stopped.

Give It A Whirl
EXPERIMENT TITLE: Give It A Whirl

SCIENCE CONCEPT(S): Forces are balanced or unbalanced, centripetal force

One Good Turn
EXPERIMENT TITLE: One Good Turn

SCIENCE CONCEPT(S): Effect of mass, velocity, diameter, and mass location on a spinning gyroscope.

On The Ball
EXPERIMENT TITLE: On The Ball

SCIENCE CONCEPT(S): Conservation of energy, kinetic energy.

Bowled Over
EXPERIMENT TITLE: Bowled Over

SCIENCE CONCEPT(S): Graphical analysis of data, kinetic and potential energy, behavior of falling objects, describing periodic motion.

A Momentous Occasion
EXPERIMENT TITLE: A Momentous Occasion

SCIENCE CONCEPT(S): Newton's Second Law of Motion- Force Equals Mass Times Acceleration (F=MA)

INSTRUCTIONS: Click on thumbnail or experiment title to view videos, lesson plans, and additional resources.

Music of the Spheres
EXPERIMENT TITLE: Music of the Spheres

SCIENCE CONCEPT(S): Transfer of energy. Effects of adding kinetic energy (heat or motion) on a material’s properties.

The Heat Is On
EXPERIMENT TITLE: The Heat Is On

SCIENCE CONCEPT(S): Heat (thermal energy) moves in a predictable direction, potential energy and kinetic energy, the particle nature of matter, random motion of particles at varying temperatures.

Tuned In
EXPERIMENT TITLE: Tuned In

SCIENCE CONCEPT(S): Sound is energy. Vibrations can create sound energy tht spreads away from the source in all directions. Different vibrations create different sounds.