Whether it's a skateboard accelerating down a hill, a shopping cart rolling to a stop, or two bumper cars colliding, motion is constantly changing in response to forces. Students can observe these events every day, but collecting and analyzing real�...

The first few weeks of school set the tone for the rest of the year. Before students dive into complex investigations, they need opportunities to practice the habits of scientists⁠—⁠asking questions, making predictions, collecting data, and in...

Understanding concepts like electric potential and energy transfer involves more than simply connecting wires and observing what happens in a circuit. To explain why a motor speeds up, a light dims, or a capacitor discharges, students must measure a...

Getting students genuinely curious about optics can be a challenge. But when they can point to the lens in their smartphone camera, the prescription in their glasses, or the aperture on a DSLR and say "I understand how that works"—that's when the ...

What if your students could build a wind turbine, optimize it through real investigation, and use it to pump water uphill—all while covering circuits, electromagnetism, energy transfer, and engineering design in one connected renewable energy...

Students observe motion constantly⁠—⁠objects falling, rolling, colliding⁠—⁠but making sense of why that motion looks the way it does can be challenging. Why does a dropped phone fall straight down, while a ball launched from a table foll...

When I teach forces, friction is one of those topics where I really want students working hands‑on and looking closely at data. This fall, I used the Static and Kinetic Friction experiment from Physics with Vernier, and I added a variati...

2025 has been a year of momentum and meaningful progress. We grew our Trendsetters Community, launched remote logging for Go Direct® sensors, and added new sensors to our lineup. We also continued modernizing our suite of analysis apps to give educ...

From everyday activities like opening a door or riding a bike to more complex applications like designing safer cars or propelling rockets into space, force impacts countless aspects of our daily lives. Yet, for many students, force remains an abstr...

Every day, my students cross 112th Street outside our high school—a busy, four-lane corridor with a 40 mph speed limit that often feels more like 50. When I asked my class how they feel when they walk home or cross that road, most of them had...