Fast & Furious Science

Essential Question:

How can Newton's Laws explain how and why things move?

Portrait of a Graduate:

Critical Thinking: Encourage solving problems using Newton's Laws.

Collaboration: Have students work in teams to conduct experiments demonstrating these laws.

Inquiry Question:

How do Newton's Laws predict the outcome of forces acting upon objects in various interactions?

2. Inquiry Question:

In what ways can we accurately measure and calculate the force exerted on objects, and how does this relate to motion?

3. Inquiry Question:

How is energy transferred and transformed in the context of work done on objects, according to Newton's Laws?

Student Outcomes:

Students will be able to apply Newton's Laws to predict and analyze the motion of objects after various forces are applied.

2. Student Outcomes:

Students will understand how to measure force and use it to calculate the resulting motion of objects.

3. Student Outcomes:

Students will explain energy transfer and transformation during work and relate it to Newton's Laws of motion.

Skills Demonstrated:

Analyze data to support the claim that Newton’s second law of motion describes the mathematical relationship among the net force on a macroscopic object, its mass, and its acceleration.

Use mathematical representations to support the claim that the total momentum of a system of objects is conserved when there is no net force on the system.

Apply scientific and engineering ideas to design, evaluate, and refine a device that minimizes the force on a macroscopic object during a collision.

Create a computational model to calculate the change in the energy of one component in a system when the change in energy of the other component(s) and energy flows in and out of the system are known.

Design, build, and refine a device that works within given constraints to convert one form of energy into another form of energy.

Standards:

NGSS & NSTA Safety Standards

Chemistry Safety and Measurement Standards

HS-PS Matter & Energy

HS-PS2-1: Analyze data to support the claim that Newton's second law of motion describes the mathematical relationship among the net force on a macroscopic object, its mass, and its acceleration.

HS-PS2-2: Use mathematical representations to support the claim that the total momentum of a system of objects is conserved when there is no net force on the system.

HS-PS3-1: Create a computational model to calculate the change in the energy of one component in a system when the change in energy of the other component(s) and energy flows in and out of the system are known.

Resources:

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