Investigate the effect of applying various pushes and pulls on different objects.
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Huff and Puff: A Lesson Focused on the Force of the Wind | In this lesson students will be exploring the force of wind and its affect on objects. Students will use the engineering design process to sketch, build, and assess how their structure withstands different forces of wind. |
Making Objects Move Science NetLinks | In this lesson, students identify ways to make objects move while recording their techniques. Students then engineer a track that will place an object as close to an exact location as possible. Students will test and revise their tracks. |
Three Pigs 2.0 - An Engineering Design Challenge | This Engineering Design Challenge is intended to help students apply the concepts of force from SC.2.P.13.1 (investigate the effect of applying various pushes and pulls on different objects) and the concept of wind from SC.2.E.7.4 (investigate that air is all around us and that moving air is wind) as they build structures to withstand the force of high-speed winds. It is not intended as an initial introduction to these concepts. |
Use the Force! Racing Zucchini | Students will be investigating the effect of various pushes and pulls on on objects and seeing that the greater the force applied, the greater the change in motion. Students will be using hands-on activities and then build and race their own zucchini car to better understand the concept of force and motion. |
Push and Pull | The students will investigate the effect of applying various pushes and pulls on different objects. |
Three Billy Goats Gruff Build a Bridge - An Engineering Design Challenge | This Engineering Design Challenge is intended to help students apply the concepts of force from SC.2.P.13.1 (investigate the effect of applying various pushes and pulls on different objects) as they build bridges to hold the greatest load. It is also intended to help students apply the concepts of money from MAFS.2.MD.3.8 (Solve word problems involving dollar bills, quarters, dimes, nickels, and pennies, using $ and ¢ symbols appropriately) as they strive to construct the most cost effective bridge. It is not intended as an initial introduction to these concepts. |
Lighthouses and Lenses - An Engineering Design Challenge | This Engineering Design Challenge is intended to help students apply the concepts of force from SC.2.P.13.1 (investigate the effect of applying various pushes and pulls on different objects), the concept of wind from SC.2.E.7.4 (investigate that air is all around us and that moving air is wind), and practice working with money (MAFS.2.MD.3.8 solve word problems involving dollar bills, quarters, dimes, nickels, and pennies, using $ and ¢ symbols appropriately) as they build structures to withstand the force of high-speed winds. The first day's lesson also provides practice in recognizing and drawing shapes (MAFS.2.G.1.1). It is not intended as an initial introduction to these concepts. |
Henry and Mudge Meet Leonardo da Vinci | This is an integrated lesson that includes an Engineering Design Challenge, a review of forces, an introduction to drawbridges, and a literary text Henry and Mudge and The Long Weekend by Cynthia Rylant. The Engineering Design Challenge is intended to help students investigate and generate explanations (SC.2.N.1.1) and practice working with money (MAFS.2.MD.3.8) as they design and build movable drawbridges. It is not intended as an initial introduction to these concepts. |
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Push Me, Pull Me with Force | In this lesson, students use a magnet to demonstrate that force leads to motion. Students will recognize forces that attract and repel other objects and demonstrate them. Students will also describe various types of motions. |
All About Motion | Students will observe and discuss motion in learning stations or in demonstration. They will observe and discuss how a push or pull affects motion. |
Investigating Motion With Marbles | In this guided inquiry activity, students will use 2 marbles of different size and a box to investigate what makes the marbles move and what will cause the marbles to change speed and direction. |
Sports Equipment - What Kind of Force? | Children discuss, observe and "play" with equipment used in familiar sports. They discuss how the equipment is used and predict how the equipment is put into motion or stopped from continuing to be in motion. |
What Makes Things Move? | Students will use an inquiry based approach to discover how things move. They will discover that a push and a pull are forces that put things into motion. They will also investigate how friction is a force that slows a moving object. |
What Makes Things Move? | Students will use an inquiry based approach to discover how things move. They will discover that a push and a pull are forces that put things into motion. They will also investigate how friction is a force that slows a moving object. |