Physics of the Universe · Week 8 · Forces at a Distance
Electric Charges
Modeling attraction and repulsion between charges and reflecting on what attracts and repels us in hard situations.
- Students will
- Students model how like charges repel and opposite charges attract and how force weakens with distance, and reflect on what attracts and repels us in hard situations.
- SEL skill
- Notice what pulls you in and what pushes you away, and say why
- What it looks like
- Students practice using emotions to think by noticing what pulls them in or pushes them away and why.
- Content focus
- Electric charges: attract and repel
- Format
- Think write pair share
Self-awareness
Self-awareness means noticing your own emotions, thoughts, values, and strengths and seeing how they shape what you do. More self-awareness activities
What you get
A teacher guide with what to say, step by step, plus student pages and a supports page for students with diverse learning needs, including those with IEPs. Print or Project it, or assign it in Google Forms and Google Docs for Google Classroom. Your first 10 activities are free.
Standards
- HS-PS2-4: High School Physical Science performance expectation
- Science and engineering practice: SEP2 Developing and using models
- Crosscutting concept: CCC2 Cause and effect
- Literacy in science: RST.11-12.7 Translate between quantitative or technical information in words, tables, graphs, and equations.
- Traditional course: Physics
Fits these textbook chapters
- Physics Techbook, Concept 2.1: Fundamental Forces
- Physics Techbook, Concept 2.3: Electric Forces
- Physics Techbook, Concept 3.5: Conductors and Insulators
- Inspire Physics, Unit 5: Electrostatics
- California HMH Science Dimensions: Physics in the Universe, Unit 3: Forces at a Distance
- California HMH Science Dimensions: Physics in the Universe, Unit 5: Electricity and Magnetism
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More self-awareness activities for Physics of the Universe
- The Physicist in Me Self-awarenessStudents list the motion questions they wonder about, from skateboards to dust devils, and name the scientist identity they bring.
- Energy Is Conserved Self-awarenessCalculating energy changes in a system and tracking where students' emotional energy goes during a school day.
- Semester Reflection: My Energy Story Self-awarenessStudents write an energy conservation story of their semester, showing where their effort went and what it built.
- Atoms That Change Self-awarenessModeling radioactive decay and reflecting on which parts of ourselves change and which stay stable.
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