Below you will find Videos, Lessons, and Projects that align with state standards when teaching Motion & Forces. If you would like to view the resource, just click on the image and it'll take you directly to it.

Videos

All three of these videos are wonderful, engaging and incorporate some sort of STEM. These videos are also good ways to start your unit as a hook or use within your slideshow.

Lessons

1. This lesson is on here because there's a lot of new teachers out there that might need a little bit of a refresher on what this unit is all about. This is a quick little overview on what concepts needs to be taught and what is in the unit.

2. This is a really short lesson that is detailed what's really nice about this lesson there is a short assessment piece checking for understanding at the very end that is very valuable.

3. You can never go wrong with Khan Academy although his voice might be a little dry the information and the way it's presented is always super catchy for the students and they all seem to like it.

STEM Projects

1. Students will design A car to demonstrate that they understand Newton's third law. They will go through the design process and check data within this design process and prove it throughout this lab.

2. Student pairs experience the iterative engineering design process as they design, build, test and improve catching devices to prevent a "naked" egg from breaking when dropped from increasing heights. To support their design work, they learn about materials properties, energy types and conservation of energy. Acting as engineering teams, during the activity and competition they are responsible for design and construction planning within project constraints, including making engineering modifications for improvement.

3. In this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, an early astronaut's experiences teach students that Newton's third law of motion & mdash;for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction & mdash;applies both on Earth and in outer space.

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