We're drawing conclusions from our data AND writing about it, using a cause and effect sentence stem: If ________________, then ________________.
Check out the work in some third graders' notebooks!
Forces surround us! Whether we can physically see them or not, they affect us in our daily lives constantly. Whether the force is gravity, the attraction between two magnets, or the pull of static electricity between a balloon and a sweater, forces truly influence our lives. Third graders will be looking at the effects of balanced and unbalanced forces on the motion of an object and the cause and effect relationships of electric or magnetic interactions between two objects not in contact with each other. They will then able to apply their understanding of magnetic interactions to define a simple design problem that can be solved with magnets.
After third graders tested the forces needed to lift different objects in the classroom, they started to see any patterns that emerged. Do heavier objects need more or less force to lift? How does the number of Newtons needed to lift it give us information about how heavy/light the object is?
We're drawing conclusions from our data AND writing about it, using a cause and effect sentence stem: If ________________, then ________________. Check out the work in some third graders' notebooks! Comments are closed.
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