Explore Isaac Newton's three laws of motion through hands-on activities with energy and forces.
Moving with Newton
For grades 3 – 8
- Location: Griffin MSI
- Capacity: 32 students
- Duration: 45 minutes
- Cost: $240
- Offered Tuesday and Thursday at 10:15 and 11:45 a.m.
Lab goals
Provide a hands-on, student-led activity to spark interest in science and expose students to different career pathways.
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.
- Communicate with peers using terminology/vocabulary accurately.
- Develop and test a hypothesis about what will occur during an experiment, demonstration or activity.
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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