Do you need a fun and engaging End of the Year Activity? Do you love science and getting messy? Do you or your students like to watch things explode? Do you like delicious watermelon? Well, LOOK NO FURTHER!

Teach your students all about energy, force, gravity, and Newton's Laws of Motion with this fun Science Lab! Students will watch educational videos, go through detailed slides with vocabulary words and definitions, complete comprehension questions, and finish with a Science Lab that is GUARANTEED to make a MESS! Students will use rubber bands to make a watermelon EXPLODE!

This experiment will need to be conducted outside for safety purposes :)

You will need:

• Rubber bands (at least 400-600 per watermelon)

• A Medium sized Watermelon

• Table or Flat Surface

• Face Shields and/or Safety Goggles

• 2-3 people to put the rubber bands on

• Timer

• Optional: 

• Table Cloth (to keep your surface sticky free afterwards)

• Bowl (super helpful in keeping the watermelon stationary)

• Gloves (in case you break rubber bands to protect your hands)

• Apron (to keep your clothes watermelon free)