(#21) Motion
In this unit your students will observe, analyze and graph all kinds of motion: the acceleration of marbles down an incline; the herky-jerky motion of classmates doing the heel-toe shuffle; collisions of marbles with equal and unequal masses; paper clips orbiting on string; floor tappers in free fall; jet straws, catapults and much more. Thanks to Newton, all these varied motions can be understood in terms of the same basic laws. His ideas about mass, inertia, balanced and unbalanced forces, acceleration, action and reaction, all make good sense. Students grasp the abstract because they have experienced the concrete.
(#21) MOTION is part of our Self-Directing Task Card Series. It is an 88 page soft-bound book organized into three main parts:
INTRODUCTION
* A TOPS Model for Effective Science Teaching * Getting Ready * Gathering
Materials * Sequencing Task Cards * Long Range Objectives * Review / Test
Questions
TEACHING NOTES (36 lessons)
* Bodies At Rest * Bodies In Motion * Slide Show (1) * Slide Show (2) *
Heel-Toe Shuffle * Heel-Toe Walk * Heel-Toe Graph * Tracking Collisions
(1) * Tracking Collisions (2) * Out From Under * Book Drop? * The Hoop
Trick * Tension * Make A Scale * Two Kinds Of Friction * Balanced Forces *
Build An Accelerometer * Acceleration Is Change! * Seconds Per Second *
Tracking A Curve * Earth-Moon Model * Force Over Mass... * Free Fall * Air
Resistance * Clothespin Launcher * Jet Straw * Catapult (1) * Catapult (2)
* Floor Tappers (1) * Floor Tappers (2) * Floor Tappers (3) * Click Along
(1) * Click Along (2) * Click Along (3) * Rolling Pennies * Reaction Time
REPRODUCIBLE LINE MASTERS
* 36 Open-Ended Task Cards * Graph Paper
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#21 MOTION uses no special lab equipment other than spring scales between 200 g and 300 g capacity. And even these are optional. Just photocopy the 36 task cards, gather simple materials (like meter sticks, rubber bands, marbles and pennies), and you're ready to explore TOPS Learning Systems hands-on.
GRADE RANGE: 7-12
ORIGINS: written by Ron Marson / illustrated by Peg Marson / copyrighted
in 1990
by TOPS Learning Systems / ISBN 0-941008-98-3
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#21 Motion @ $16.00
