Galileo in the High School Lab

Galileo believed that experimentation was the cornerstone of all good science.   He believed that   scientific theories and principles should not be accepted until proven valid through experimentation.   Today,  every science teacher emphasizes that point to his or her students through the varied experiments conducted in high school science labs.   Here are a few interesting experiments used by two science teachers, a physics teacher in a suburban technical high school and a general science teacher in a rural comprehensive high school.  Some of these labs are based on Galileo's principles.  Some are not.  All prove the power of experimentation in the science lab.  Have fun with science!!!!!

Special thanks to Peter Quirk, physics teacher at Shawsheen Technical High School, Billerica, Massachusetts and Alan Wanamaker,  science teacher at Poland Regional High School, Poland, Maine