Students investigated data about the relationship between acceleration, mass, and force of a launched object, and derived Newton’s Second Law of Motion.

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Students continued investigating Newton’s First Law of Motion, with demonstrations, discussion and video clips.  Then we turned our attention to the idea of acceleration, and what it REALLY means.

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Students began investigating Newton’s First Law of Motion with a demo and an activity involving clothespins.

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Students revisited their Forces Show You Know work, revising, repairing, fixing and adding.  We also looked together at the rubric for the Bridge project, and at the exit ticket for that project.

HW: Final draft of Bridge Design/Test sheets and Exit Slip.

Students built and tested the second iterations of their bridges, and began describing the results.

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Students practiced calculating net force in a variety of situations, then created and illustrated their own net force problems.

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Students finished an informational text about balanced and unbalanced forces, and net force.  They showed their knowledge with an exit ticket, and we discussed some of our findings in class.

HW: Forces Reading Exit Ticket, if not finished in class.

Students reviewed forces, balanced and unbalanced forces.  Then we did a pre-reading activity and began a reading to increase our understanding about balanced and unbalanced forces, and to introduce the idea of net force.

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Students explored the concepts of scientific forces, balanced and unbalanced forces.

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Students put the finishing touches on their Ramp Investigation paragraphs and turned them in.  They also translated graphs into narratives about a skater’s actions.  Then they began an assessment about energy, in which they complete a model of energy involving a ball on a hill.

HW: Finish Hill Energy Model assessment