Physical Science Lessons & Classroom Resources

Help students investigate matter, motion, forces, energy, waves, and electricity with ready-to-use Physical Science lessons, labs, and review games.

Matter: Properties & Changes

States of matter, physical and chemical changes, and properties of materials.

Basic particle model of matter, atoms, molecules, and simple particles.

Describing motion with distance, time, speed, velocity, and acceleration graphs.

Balanced and unbalanced forces, friction, and basic Newton’s laws.

Potential and kinetic energy, energy transformations, and conservation of energy.

Types of waves, wave properties, sound, and simple light behavior.

Electric charges, simple circuits, magnets, and basic electromagnetism.

Levers, pulleys, inclined planes, and how machines make work easier.