Forces and Motion Activities & Websites for Kids

KidsKnowIt Network's Acceleration Interactive Movie helps students understand what acceleration is and how it affects the velocity of objects. Other concepts explained are constant velocity, constant acceleration, distance per...

From site: Crayon Physics Deluxe is a 2D physics puzzle / sandbox game, in which you get to experience what it would be like if your drawings would...

See a lever, pulley, wedge, screw, wheel and inclined plane in action. The EdHeads robot will escort you through various rooms in a house, garage and shed, as...

Students make predictions about machines and forces that take EdHead on a comical journey through a house's plumbing. Great follow-on to this site's Simple Machines game. ...

From site: Rival park owner, Bertie Block, is plotting to break one of ParkWorld's rides. Investigate the science of forces to save ParkWorld from ruin...Teachers, you can access...

From site: Mechanisms are used to convert between one type of motion and another. Any machine can be looked on as a group of interconnected mechanisms which convert one...

From site: There are spare robot parts all over the Museum. It's the job of Twitch (up there, in red) to go and collect them. It won't be easy,...

NeoK12 offers a set of YouTube videos explaining and illustrating the different types of simple machines and how they work. All videos and lessons on this site...

From site: Do you know how simple machines behave? Solve all the puzzles PLUS create new ones for your friends.Compete against your friends, rack up points, and win...

Tinker Ball is a great interactive game for helping kids learn how simple machines can be made from everyday objects.  They use hockey sticks, funnels and baseball bats in creative...

NeoK12 offers a set of YouTube videos explaining and illustrating the types of forces, including normal force, friction, centrifigal force, centripetal force, gravity, magnetism, buoyancy, and nuclear. All...