Lesson Overview
The students will be able to:
- Describe and Predict
-Design a catapult with the given materials to explore their predictions
- Test their predictions using the catapult that they created while recording their results
Essential Question
What is energy? What happens when force is acted upon an object?
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Other Instructional Materials or Notes:
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-Laptop
-Smart Board
- Tape
- Soccer ball
- Popsicle sticks
- Water bottle lid
- Rubber bands
- Glue sticks
- Candy corn
- Skittles
- Erasers
- Cotton balls
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- Science and Engineering Practices
- 1.S.1 The student will use the science and engineering practices, including the processes and skills of scientific inquiry, to develop understandings of science content.
- 1.S.1B Technology is any modification to the natural world created to fulfill the wants and needs of humans. The engineering design process involves a series of iterative steps used to solve a problem and often leads to the development of a new or impr...
- 1.S.1B.1 Construct devices or design solutions to solve specific problems or needs:
- 1.S.1B.1.4 build and test devices or solutions,
- 1.S.1B.1.5 determine if the devices or solutions solved the problem, and
- 1.S.1B.1.2 ask questions about the criteria and constraints of the devices or solutions,
- 1.S.1B.1.3 generate and communicate ideas for possible devices or solutions,
- 1.S.1B.1.6 communicate the results.
- 1.S.1B.1 Construct devices or design solutions to solve specific problems or needs:
- 1.S.1A The practices of science and engineering support the development of science concepts, develop the habits of mind that are necessary for scientific thinking, and allow students to engage in science in ways that are similar to those used by scient...
- 1.S.1B Technology is any modification to the natural world created to fulfill the wants and needs of humans. The engineering design process involves a series of iterative steps used to solve a problem and often leads to the development of a new or impr...
- 1.S.1 The student will use the science and engineering practices, including the processes and skills of scientific inquiry, to develop understandings of science content.
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