animal characteristics and make inferences about how these organisms are adapted to their habitats Days Unit/Topic Common Core Standards Activities Learning Targets Vocabulary (“I Can” Statements) Day 88 Forces and Balanced and 3-PS2-1. Plan and - 131 Forces and Interactions conduct an unbalanced Interactions Use common sport investigation to forces, motion, activities (e.g., tennis, PS2.A: Forces and Motion provide evidence of electric kickball, soccer, force acts on one particular the effects of interactions, baseball) to object and has both strength and a balanced and magnetic demonstrate that the direction. An object at rest typically has unbalanced forces interactions rate of motion is multiple forces acting on it, but they add on the affected by the motion of an to give zero net force on the object. strength of the push or object. Forces that do not sum to zero pull (force). can cause changes in the object’s speed 3-PS2-2. Make Using a playground or direction of observations swing, push students motion. (Boundary: Qualitative and and/or using varying strength conceptual, but not quantitative addition measurements of of push. Observe the of forces are used at this level.) an object’s motion change in position to provide (3-PS2-1) when using a little evidence that a patterns of an object’s motion in force and greater pattern can be used various situations can be observed and amounts of force. to measured; when that past motion predict future Move identical objects exhibits a regular pattern, future motion motion. different distances can be predicted from it. (Boundary: (e.g., box of copy Technical terms, such as magnitude, paper 1 meter and 10 velocity, momentum, and vector quantity, meters). Discuss the are not introduced at this level, but the amount of force concept that some quantities need both needed. size and direction to be described is Move different objects developed.)
animal characteristics and make inferences about how these organisms are adapted to their habitats Days Unit/Topic Common Core Standards Activities Learning Targets (“I Can” Statements) Vocabulary Day 88 - 131 Forces and Interactions Forces and Interactions PS2.A: Forces and Motion force acts on one particular object and has both strength and a direction. An object at rest typically has multiple forces acting on it, but they add to give zero net force on the object. Forces that do not sum to zero can cause changes in the object’s speed or direction of motion. (Boundary: Qualitative and conceptual, but not quantitative addition of forces are used at this level.) (3-PS2-1) patterns of an object’s motion in various situations can be observed and measured; when that past motion exhibits a regular pattern, future motion can be predicted from it. (Boundary: Technical terms, such as magnitude, velocity, momentum, and vector quantity, are not introduced at this level, but the concept that some quantities need both size and direction to be described is developed.) Use common sport activities (e.g., tennis, kickball, soccer, baseball) to demonstrate that the rate of motion is affected by the strength of the push or pull (force). Using a playground swing, push students using varying strength of push. Observe the change in position when using a little force and greater amounts of force. Move identical objects different distances (e.g., box of copy paper 1 meter and 10 meters). Discuss the amount of force needed. Move different objects 3-PS2-1. Plan and conduct an investigation to provide evidence of the effects of balanced and unbalanced forces on the motion of an object. 3-PS2-2. Make observations and/or measurements of an object’s motion to provide evidence that a pattern can be used to predict future motion. Balanced and unbalanced forces, motion, electric interactions, magnetic interactions
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