Hands-on Equipment

Gears and levers are among the most common and illustrative simple machines. With CPO's Gears & Levers, principles such as mechanical advantage, torque, and rotating motion are easily illustrated with practical hands-on examples.

Ropes & Pulleys is the ideal hands-on tool for you to teach the concepts of work and energy to your students.

Ultimate Pulleys is a new, exciting, and equipment module that provides a complete lab for rotational dynamics, motion, and principles of machines.

By using the Gravity Drop with the Timer II and Photogates, your students drop marbles, make accurate measurements, build graphs, and calculate the acceleration of gravity (g to within 2%). Exploring the concepts of free fall, acceleration, and Newton’s Laws will be fun for your students.

The Car & Ramp is the best starting point for teaching and learning the concepts of forces and motion. Used with the Timer II and Photogates, this equipment module engages your students in accurate and repeatable experiments as they investigate Newton's Laws, speed, acceleration, friction, and simple machines.

The EnergyCar is an exciting piece of equipment that allows students to explore science concepts such as speed, force, velocity, acceleration, Newton's Laws, graphs of motion, conservation of energy, conservation momentum, and more.

Using this simple and elegant equipment module, your students observe potential and kinetic energy in action. As they work together using the Timer II and Photogates to make precise measurements and graphs, students learn how the marble exchanges height for speed.

This elegant track allows one meter of straight-line travel. Steel and plastic marbles of different masses roll down the track. The straight track is an exceptional platform for your students to explore motion and Newton's laws.

This equipment module is both irresistible and informative. Why does the marble stay on the track at the top of the loop? Students discover that the marble must maintain a minimum speed to make it around the loop. The speed corresponds to a balance between gravity and centripetal forces.

Use the Marble Launcher to lead your students through interesting and fun activities covering science and math topics including projectile motion, vectors, data analysis, statistics, looking beyond simple theories, problem-solving, real numbers, measurement, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, and probability.

The Electric Circuits module provides students with the hands-on tools they need to discover all the basic functions of electric circuits. The simple-to-use and intuitive design makes mastering circuit concepts easy and fun.

How do magnets behave and what makes an electric motor work? This is just the beginning in a series of questions that will lead to fascinating hands-on explorations using the newly redesigned and improved Electric Motor.

This module allows your students to explore the law of momentum conservation using accurate photogate measurements. The colliding steel bobs conserve energy and momentum to better than 97%. This equipment module recreates some of the key features in Rutherford's discovery of the atomic nucleus!

The Sound & Waves equipment module opens up fascinating questions for hands-on explorations that are guaranteed to capture your students' attention. Wavelength, frequency, resonance beats, natural frequence, and interference are among the many topics that you can explore with your students.

The Light & Optics equipment module engages your students in fantastic hands-on activities that investigate the light spectrum, lenses and mirrors, real and virtual images, constructive and destructive interference, polarization, color theory, and color mixing.

This illustrative, multi-level model allows your students to build atoms using colored marbles that represent protons, neutrons, and electrons. We have arranged pockets in a 19" square board to correspond to the energy levels of the s, p, and d orbitals for electron shells one to five.

Similar to our original Periodic Table Puzzle, this foam tile version provides exceptional value for a limited budget. 164 two-sided tiles contain all of the elements. Each element group has its own color. The backside of each tile has a common element, allowing your students to easily construct and balance equations for numerous molecules and compounds.

Crazy Traits is a fun and innovative manipulative to help your students learn about genetics and evolution. Through a series of games and activities, they learn that the traits people and animals inherit from their parents are based on chance.

The Air Rocket challenges your students with comprehensive investigations covering concepts such as Newton's Laws, moment of inertia, conservation of energy, conservation of momentum, gas laws, rotational motion, angular velocity, and several other concepts.