This nine weeks we will focus on Newton's Laws of Motion. Students have learned about Sir Isaac Newton and Newton's First Law of Motion: the Law of Inertia. Students made a poster showing different elements of Newton's First Law of Motion: Inertia, force, friction, and mass. We did force and friction experiments to further examine this law, created a concept map of inertia, created aerodynamic airplanes, and finally dropped various objects to show gravitational pull and drag. Students wrote a test on either Thursday or Friday on Newton's First Law and will receive their test on Monday.
We are moving on to Newton's Second Law of Motion and will examine how force and mass act on an object's acceleration. We will need temporary donations of toy cars after Thanksgiving to show how adding two times the mass reduces acceleration to half - a very fun experiment indeed!
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