Accessible Science Activities

 

In their science project, Howard and Kristen tested the "bounciness" of three types of balls.
Students measure the height the ball bounced.
Measuring the Bounciness of Balls
A student with a visual impairment designs a scientific experiment to investigate whether boys learn to beatbox more quickly than girls. Mike, is a student who loves to beat box. His project reflects his interest.
The image is of 3 figures dancing and beatboxing.
Can You Beatbox?
Models of three types of stress that can be placed on rock are described.
Modeling shear stress with playdoh.
Rock Under Stress
A hands-on activity to introduce students who are blind and visually impaired to friction.
two hands together as if clapping, with dust floating around them
Introducing Friction
This activity uses a science-based approach to teach color description to students who are blind or visually impaired.
The image is of 3 waves of varying wavelength.
Teaching Color Using Wavelength
A hands-on activity to introduce students who are blind and visually impaired to gravity and weight.
kitchen scale
Gravity and Weight
Students who are blind or visually impaired measure distance and time to calculate the speed at which a marble travels.
A student using a ruler
Measuring Speed
A hands-on science activity that teaches students who are blind and visually impaired about the balance of objects.
An image of a scale holding two buckets, one has something in it, but they appear to weigh the same
Balance
In this activity, students will experience an endothermic reaction and gauge the temperature change that occurs as a result of the reaction.
A student reacts baking soda and vinegar
Endothermic or Exothermic Reaction?
This activity focuses on ionic bonding and the importance of valence electrons in chemical bonding.
The image is of a sodium and a chloride atom after bonding.
Modeling Ionic Bonding of Atoms with the AZER APH Model
The volume of two identically shaped cubes is compared followed by a comparison of the masses of the same two cubes.
Cubes of identical volume are compared.
Intro to Volume and Mass
This hands-on activity teaches students who are blind and visually impaired about problem solving and the engineering design process.
Two sets of ping pong paddles and a ping pong ball
Ping Pong Pop Fly

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