Rolling Along

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Rolling Along

• Force and Motion
• Ramps

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Content Vocabulary

• Potential energy
• Kinetic energy
• Gravity
• Energy
• GPE- gravitational potential energy
• Force
• Variable

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Core Content Concept 1.2.2

• An objects motion can be described by measuring
  its change in position
• over time such as rolling different objects
  down a ramp

• Increasing the height of the starting line
  increases the GPE of the bottle, thus increasing
  its kinetic energy as it leaves the ramp.

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Materials

• One board for a ramp
• One empty and clean 2L bottle
• 8 books of equal thickness
• 1 measuring tape
• 1 roll of masking tape
• 1 marker to label distances
• Lab notebooks

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Grouping

• Whole class
• Students will be asked to help carry supplies and
  perform experiment

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Introduction

• Review how the standard cars moved on a flat
  surface
• Ask what if we used a ramp
• Explain how they will set up an experiment as a
  class with the given materials
• Discuss form a chart to record results

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Record ResultsHeight of the Ramp
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Notebooks

• Students will fill out notebooks as the lesson
  progresses. After returning to the classroom the
  students are asked to write a conclusion based on
  their results.

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Facilitation

• Do as a group/record results as a group- use
  notebooks and volunteers during the experiment

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Closure

• Share responses from notebooks
• Have students copy formal conclusion after
  students responses are discussed
• Do the same experiment the next day but change
  the variable surface use carpet

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Homework

• Use vocabulary to create a story- vocabulary
  should be used with context clues to understand
  the meaning of each word, not define

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Literacy Connections

• And Everyone Shouted Pull by Claire Llewellyn and
  Simone Abel
• Move It- Motion, Forces, and You by Claudia
  Davile
• Eyewitness Force and Motion by Peter Latterty

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Demonstration