What Your Students Need to Know Before High School: Physics


You can use any of a variety of science curriculum, or you can just do explorations and experiments that interest your students, but usually at some point homeschool teachers wonder if they have done enough. This often happens as you begin to think about the transition into high school. So, what do students need to know before they begin high school level physics?
Italy in the Renaissance
So much of physics is math related once students get to the high school level, but there is much to do before they get to that level...
Building Big: Suspension Bridges
Building

Magnets
Weather: Temperature & Wind
Weather
Air Pressure

The Water Cycle: Evaporation, Condensation and Precipitation
The Water Cycle

Seeing the Effect of Changing Temperature
Temperature

Density, Buoyancy and Fish

Density
Buoyancy
Crystals

The Difference Between Rocks and Minerals
Geology
Rocks, Minerals and Fossils
Layers of the Earth Model You Can Eat
Geological Formations

Viewing the Transit of Venus
Lenses
Refraction
Optics
Light
Color
Sound
Simple Machines

Moving Energy in a Toy Car

Energy
Weight vs. Mass
Speed
Newton's Laws
Inertia

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