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Laws of Motion Central Idea: Understanding and applying force and motion enables work to be completed more efficiently.

What do we Want to Learn?

Our Concepts, Lines of Inquiry, Enduring Understandings, and Knowledge

Concepts

Lines of Inquiry

Lines of Inquiry cont... Enduring Understandings Knowledge

Function Causation Connection

1.Forces and Motion (function)

When we apply our 2.How force and motion knowledge of physics we affect us and other can improve efficiency matter (causation)

Related Concepts

3.How applying our understanding of force and motion can increase efficiency (connection)

Efficiency Work Force

1.Forces, types of motion and how they work 2.Unit related Vocabulary 3.Simple Machines

Teacher Questions, Attitudes, Learner Profile, and Skills

Teacher Questions

Attitudes

Learner Profile

Skills

Why is it so?

Curiosity

Inquirer

Communication: Writing

Prove it (using scientific method)

Cooperation

Knowledgeable

Thinking: Acquisition of Knowledge and Analysis

What is work?

Social: Cooperation, Adopting a Variety of Roles, Group Decision Making and Accepting Responsibility Unit Vocabulary

Unit Vocabulary Force

Hypothesis

Pulley

Balanced

Mass

Purpose

Lever

Unbalanced

Friction

Method

Fulcrum

Wedge

Inertia

Procedure

Effort

Inclined Plane

Weight

Conclusion

Efficiency

Wheel

Length

Observations

Work

Axle

Height

Acceleration

Laws

Action

Width

Deceleration

Motion

Reaction

How the World Works, Unit Overview

Students participate in a number of experiments to test their laws and hypotheses.

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An inquiry into the natural world and its laws; the interaction between the natural world (physical and biological) and human societies; how humans use their understanding of scientific principals; the impact of scientific and technological advances on society and on the environment.

How You Can Help at Home

Assessment

Action

Parents can help their children at home by encouraging them to test the laws that they have written. Simply pointing out the flaws in their ideas, or telling them about the laws created by prominent thinkers of our time does nothing to help the students think deeply, analyze, test and draw conclusions.

Assessment will be based on understanding of the central idea, lines of inquiry, concepts, enduring understanding, knowledge and skills. Many of the learning engagements will be recorded in each students’ process journal, including their observations and notes and their own laws of motion, which will change and be updated throughout the unit.

Students can take action by testing their laws at home and by bringing in books and tools to carry out experiments in the class.

Prompt students to create scenarios to test their theories and encourage them to record their results using proper scientific method. Question their findings and encourage them to share their results with their peers.

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Students will be assessed on their ability to write scientific method and procedural text, as well as their ability to find patterns, collect data and measure during the experiments carried out.

Students are encouraged to show others’ demonstrations of physics experiments relating to motion and to create their own simple machines.

Students can contribute by adding to their wikis and creating a database of websites and books that can be used throughout the unit.

How the World Works, Unit Overview