Ping Pong Drop Lab, Energy, Averages and Graphing, Low Prep STEM Lab Worksheets, Florida 8th Grade Science, Middle School Printable

A low prep STEM lab your students will love! Partners drop a ping pong ball from 50, 100, and 150 cm, run 5 trials at each height, find the averages, graph them, and write a CER lab summary. All you need is ping pong balls, meter sticks, painter's tape, and a hard floor next to a wall. These organized lab worksheets take 1–2 class periods.

Students practice:
- Independent and dependent variables, and constants
- Repeated trials and finding averages
- Graphing averages and making predictions
- Potential and kinetic energy: where the energy goes on each bounce
- Writing a claim with evidence and reasoning ("the results support...")

What's inside (10 pages):
- Table of contents with print settings for each section
- Teacher page: Florida benchmarks, materials, setup, prep, and safety
- 2-page answer key for all three lab sheets
- 3 full-page lab worksheets:
- Lab Sheet 1: Collect the Data
- Lab Sheet 2: Graph Your Averages
- Lab Sheet 3: Think Harder & Lab Summary
- Interactive notebook version: the same 3 lab sheets as half pages, 2 per landscape sheet, to glue into a composition or spiral notebook

Why teachers like it:
- Low prep with cheap, easy-to-find materials
- Choose full-page lab worksheets or the interactive notebook version
- Dyslexia-friendly OpenDyslexic font on student pages
- Black-and-white friendly, printed at 100% scale
- Works in grades 6–8 for middle school science

Florida benchmarks (NGSSS): SC.8.N.1.1 (scientific investigation), SC.8.N.1.2 (repeated trials), SC.8.N.1.3 (results support or fail to support), SC.7.P.11.2 (energy transformation), SC.6.P.11.1 (potential and kinetic energy). Also fits SC.6.N.1.1, SC.7.N.1.1, SC.7.N.1.4, SC.7.P.11.3, and SC.8.N.1.6.

All text and graphs are original. The font is OpenDyslexic (SIL Open Font License). For single-classroom use; buy the multiple license to share with colleagues. Not affiliated with or endorsed by the Florida Department of Education.

This is a digital download. No physical item will be shipped. Open the PDF and print on US Letter paper.

Created with the help of AI tools under my direction, then reviewed and edited by me, a Florida 8th grade science teacher, for accuracy.