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Description |
| 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. |
| Taking Flight: | Students will explore airplanes in this project-based lesson/unit with multiple lessons that are all tied to a final project. |
| What Goes Up Must Come Down! : | This is a second grade science lesson that incorporates math, science, and engineering as students work in collaborative groups to investigate gravity using real-world situations.
Students will investigate the following problem:
How can you design an invention that keeps a balloon in the air instead of letting it be pulled to the ground by gravity? Can you keep your balloon in the air longer than the other teams? |
| South of the Border with Borreguita: An Engineering Design Challenge: | This is an integrated lesson that includes an Engineering Design Challenge, a study of Mexico using an informational text, and a traditional folktale, Borreguita and the Coyote by Verna Aardema. The Engineering Design Challenge is intended to help students investigate and generate explanations and practice working with money as they design and build flagpoles to display a flag representing story concepts. It is not intended as an initial introduction to these concepts. |
| 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. |
| May the Force Be With You: | In this lesson plan, students will explore what items are attracted to magnets. They will learn that magnets have an invisible force called a magnetic field and that objects can be moved without even touching them. |
| 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 as they build bridges to hold the greatest load. It is also intended to help students apply the concepts of money as they strive to construct the most cost effective bridge. 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 and practice working with money as they design and build movable drawbridges. It is not intended as an initial introduction to these concepts. |
| Name |
Description |
| 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. |
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