Physics of the Universe · Week 2 · Forces and Motion
Force and Motion
Analyzing motion data to show that net force causes acceleration and identifying the forces that move students toward their goals.
- Students will
- Students analyze motion data to show that net force causes acceleration and identify forces that move them toward their goals.
- SEL skill
- Set a goal and name the pushes and drags that act on it, then choose one move to increase the push
- What it looks like
- Students practice self-motivation by naming the forces that push them toward a goal and the forces that slow them.
- Content focus
- Force and motion: net force causes acceleration
- Format
- Collaborative analysis
Self-management
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Standards
- HS-PS2-1: High School Physical Science performance expectation
- Science and engineering practice: SEP4 Analyzing and interpreting data
- 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 1.1: Understanding and Describing Motion
- Physics Techbook, Concept 1.2: Newton's Laws
- Physics Techbook, Concept 1.3: Using Vectors and Scalars to Describe Motion
- Physics Techbook, Concept 1.4: Solving Motion Problems
- Inspire Physics, Unit 1: A Physics Toolkit
- Inspire Physics, Unit 1: Representing Motion
- Inspire Physics, Unit 1: Accelerated Motion
- Inspire Physics, Unit 1: Forces in One Dimension
- Inspire Physics, Unit 2: Displacement and Force in Two Dimensions
- California HMH Science Dimensions: Physics in the Universe, Unit 1: Motion and Forces
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More self-management activities for Physics of the Universe
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- Magnets and Motors Self-managementInvestigating how electric current creates magnetic fields and channeling curiosity into persistence when a motor will not spin.
- Heat Engines and Efficiency Self-managementInvestigating heat flow and efficiency and finding where students lose energy to stress and how to recover it.
- The San Andreas Fault Self-managementModeling how plate motion builds and releases stress along the fault and practicing safe ways to release built up stress.
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