Explore Newton's three laws of motion with self-directed, hands-on activities, and use lab equipment to understand the universal application of these laws.
Moving with Newton
For Grades 4-8
- Location: Griffin MSI
- Capacity: 30 students
- Duration: 45 minutes
- Cost: $240
- Offered Tuesday and Thursday at 10:15 and 11:45 a.m.
Lab goals
During every session we aim to have students reach understanding and have fun along the way!
Student outcomes
- Explore and collect data in order to describe how Newton’s three laws of motion apply to several hands-on experiments.
- Describe mass, acceleration and force.
- Experiment, make observations and collect data leading them to conclude that Newton’s laws of motion apply to every object.
- Actively engage in hands-on, inquiry-based science investigation.
- Share Learning Lab-generated thoughts/ideas/questions with peers and program coordinators.
- Communicate with peers using terminology/vocabulary accurately.
- Develop and test a hypothesis about what will occur during an experiment, demonstration or activity.
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Next Generation Science Standards
All of our Learning Labs are designed to integrate curriculum standards and connections into your classroom!
Science and Engineering Practices:
- Asking questions and defining problems
- Developing and using models
- Planning and carrying out investigations
- Analyzing and interpreting data
- Constructing explanations and designing solutions
- Engaging in argument from evidence
- Obtaining, evaluating and communicating information
Crosscutting Concepts
- Patterns
- Cause and effect
Disciplinary Core Ideas
- PS2.A: Forces and Motion
- PS2.B: Types of interactions
- PS2.C: Stability and instability in physical systems
- PS3.C: Relationship between energy and forces
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