Get hands-on with this Force and Motion STEM activity. Your students will love the interactive journal pieces as well as the fun STEM challenge. Each piece is flexible enough for any classroom. This resource aligns with NGSS and NC Essential Standards. Save 20% off when you purchase the Force and Motion Unit Bundle! This unit includes: ♥ How to Use Guide ♥ Teacher Background Knowledge ♥ 5E Lesson Plan ♥ Interactive journal or Lapbook pieces with picture instructions ♥ STEM Challenge with two options (cause and effect OR potential and kinetic energy) and pictures ♥ Science Lab with printables ♥ Assessment You may also love: Water Cycle STEAM Life Cycle of a Butterfly 5E Lesson Plan with Differentiation Oil Spill Clean Up STEAM with 5E Lesson Plan & STEM Challenge Hey, are we connected yet? Click that cute, little star at the top to get connected to Simply STEAM. All new resources are 50% off for the first 24 hours. My Blog Instagram Facebook Click here to get my weekly FREEBIES!
Teach Force and Motion to Kindergarteners with this simple STEM Challenge designed to connect to the Read Aloud Book, Ricky The Rock that Couldn't Roll.
Teaching science in second or third grade? These force and motion activities, experiments, and lessons are easy to plan, NGSS aligned, and SO much fun! Your students will love the STEM challenges and the Science worksheets are so engaging.
Your students will love these creative activities and flip book to learn all about Force and Motion! This Force and...
15 engaging and hands-on force and motion activities, science experiments, teaching ideas, worksheets, and lesson plans for third grade.
What your Stem Story Challenge will have: 3 Illustrated Stories, Teacher Guide, Vocabulary Cards, Rubric, and a Journal!
Teaching science in second or third grade? These force and motion activities, experiments, and lessons are easy to plan, NGSS aligned, and SO much fun! Your students will love the STEM challenges and the Science worksheets are so engaging.
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These force and motion worksheets and stations get students SO EXCITED for science lessons! They are easy to prep and so much fun!
This worksheet is a great way for students to label pictures to show if they illustrate examples of push and pull to build their understanding of force. Push or Pull Force Worksheet
We learned that all motion is either caused by two kinds of force. Pushing or pulling. I set out clay and let them explore by using the forc...
Teach force and motion with style by using experiments free printables and resources that will help bring science concepts alive. This collection of force and motion ideas should help you cover the topics of texture, gravity, incline and some simple machines.
Teaching science in second or third grade? These force and motion activities, experiments, and lessons are easy to plan, NGSS aligned, and SO much fun! Your students will love the STEM challenges and the Science worksheets are so engaging.
An exciting collection of experiments for learning about forces and motion. Make rockets, cars and drop paint-filled balloons
Looking for a way to engage your third grade students in science, but in a hands-on way? Enable your students to display their understanding with this BALANCED AND UNBALANCED FORCES creative project. INCLUDES -1 NGSS-aligned project -3 Learning Pages (group lesson or individual reading) -1 Exit Ticket -1 Recording Sheet -Teacher & Student Instruction Guides -Answer Keys SUPPLIES LIST *everything available at a grocery or dollar store* -Printed worksheets pp. 9-13 -Coloring utensils -Pencil and eraser -Paper Rolls -Scissors -Additional classroom supplies COMPLETES NGSS 3-PS2-1 Plan and conduct an investigation to provide evidence of the effects of balanced and unbalanced forces on the motion of an object. Want more? Save $3.80 and get a bonus poster when you get the unit bundle! Happy learning! -Abbey Allen Owner & Designer of ARTventurous Animals
End your Force and Motion Unit with a BANG! This ready-to-implement resource is the perfect project to assess your students' knowledge of Force and Motion. In this STEM activity, students will act as engineers (hired by a local theme park) to design and build a prototype for a new and more exciting ride. Students will be provided with 2-3 days worth of research and planning and will then work in groups to design, build, test and revise their project. At the completion of this project, students will present their designs to a "board of directors" and the winning design will be the newest feature of the local theme park. This STEM activity is a favorite in my Physical Science class and is sure to become a favorite in your class too. What's Included... ►Guided Lesson Plan (8 day lesson plan) ►Video Analysis Activity ►Roller Coaster Physics Webquest activity ►Phase I Planning Guide ►Phase II Planning Guide ►Schedule of Events ►Project Guidelines ►Rubric (design)---EDITABLE ►Rubric (implementation of physics terms: inertia, Newton's Laws, velocity, acceleration, friction, forces, calculations and MORE!) ---EDITABLE ►Distance learning option Note: This resource is part of my FORCE & MOTION COMPLETE MEGA BUNDLE. If you have already purchased the unit bundle, please do not purchase this product. You may also be interested in.... ★Force and Motion Scavenger Hunt ★NEWTON'S LAWS OF MOTION MAZE WORKSHEET ★SPEED, VELOCITY & ACCELERATION PUZZLE ★FORCES Close Reading Packet (Print & Digital for Distance Learning) ★Types of Forces Mini Flip Book [Print & Digital for Distance Learning] ★BEST VALUE>>> FORCE & MOTION COMPLETE MEGA BUNDLE Connect with Me! ❤️Newsletter ❤️Blog ❤️Facebook ❤️Instagram ❤️Pinterest Customer Tips: How to get TPT credit to use on future purchases: *Please go to your My Purchases page (you may need to login). Beside each purchase you'll see a Provide Feedback button. Simply click it and you will be taken to a page where you can give a quick rating and leave a short comment for the product. Each time you give feedback, TPT gives you feedback credits that you use to lower the cost of your future purchases. Feedback and ratings are most greatly appreciated. Be the first to know about my sales, discounts, freebies and new products: *Look for the green star next to my store logo (THE TRENDY SCIENCE TEACHER) and click it to become a follower. That's it! You will now receive email updates about this store.
Marble Roller Coasters should be a STEM project for all classrooms!! Students love learning about force and motion with roller coasters. This will be your students' favorite science project hands down (or up as the case may be). Onomatopoeia and roller coasters go together like peanut butter and...
These force and motion worksheets and stations get students SO EXCITED for science lessons! They are easy to prep and so much fun!
Earlier this year, we worked on force and motion which culminated in a STEM lesson complete with cheap cars from Wal-Mart and cut up pieces of boxes, blocks, and paper towel rolls. One of my students
Force and motion and push and pull can be so much fun with this STEM lesson! This is a ready to use STEM challenge featuring the story The Little Red Hen. We use the book as the hook and then the students learn about forces and motion(pushes and pulls). This addresses the Georgia Science Standard of Excellence SKP2. Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information to compare and describe different types of motion. a. Plan and carry out an investigation to determine the relationship between an object’s physical attributes and its resulting motion. Then students are asked to build some sort of device to move the wheat for the Little Red Hen! Students will learn about pushes and pulls with this children's classic book and this push and pull STEM lesson. This lesson gives you information about the book, links to the science of push/pull. Then it gives you the challenge, suggested materials, and guides you through the process of getting kids ready to complete the challenge. This one is set-up to be used with Kindergarten or 1st grade. However, this activity could be used with any grade level and you could adjust the materials as needed for the age of the child. I use the book as the hook and then turn the problem into our STEM challenge. I have my students for 45 minutes at a time. You could possibly extend it into a two week lesson activity. Please feel free to share any feedback. I have more resources if you feel this one was helpful! Thank you so much for taking the time to look at my resources! Don't forget to Follow Me to see all fun, engaging STEM Challenges!! Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stemsational_stem/ This resources includes the following: *Links to the story The Little Red Hen (for hooking your students) *Links to video on Push/Pull (Force) *Challenge *Slide for discussing the problems faced in the story. *Constraints *Materials list *Testing Slide *Printable Planning Sheet *Student examples I create these resources to be used in my own classroom! I teach from this very same file! It is a good visual for students and if you were to be observed by administration. It helps to guide you with the lesson and gives the students a visual of what is expected. I work super hard on these lessons because I want my students to be engaged, have fun, and enjoy learning while they are in my classroom! I try to create real-world lessons where students have to engineer and design the solution. It also gives them something to take home to hopefully explain the "process" of what they learned to adults at home! Please feel free to ask my questions and leave helpful feedback!! Thank you so much!!! Follow me on Instagram: Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stemsational_stem/
This science lesson and STEM activity is an introduction to force and motion. Students will be introduced to the vocabulary "force," "motion," and "speed," and will be using a hands on approach throughout the majority of the lesson. This is a full lesson which includes the standards, materials, review, teacher input, independent practice, and closure, which includes an exit ticket. There are five centers/stations in this activity: - Ramp experiment - Friction ramp - Writing about force and motion - Friction rub - Online game The lesson and activity should take about one hour, depending on your class size, but can easily be taught over multiple days! It incorporates collaborative group work, explorative learning, and writing about learning. Your students will be pros at force, motion, and friction in no time! Want more upper science resources? Check out my products below! Fossils Slideshow with Student Notes **FREEBIE** Minerals Doodle Notes **FREEBIE** Rock Cycle Slideshow with Student Notes Magnets Slideshow with Student Notes Landslides Slideshow with Student Notes Plate Tectonics & Continental Drift Slideshow with Student Notes Volcano Slideshow with Student Notes
Check out this fun force and motion activity with a freebie for Halloween, where students learn the relationship between force, speed, and distance!
I know from my own experience and in my conversations with other teachers that it is often a struggle to fit in science and social studies into your day. The demands that teaching math and ELA have put on teachers leave very little time (both in your planning & prepping as well as in your i
Get teaching with these force and motion experiments, activities and videos to use in the elementary classroom. This collection of force and motion activities and resources should help you cover the topics like texture, gravity, incline and simple machines. If you’re looking for helpful ideas and lesson plans – then this is the place to start! Do you need a refresher … 24 Elementary Force and Motion Experiments & Activities Read More »
There are 10 easy and fun interactive activities to help teach your students all about magnets force and motion!
One of the Next Generation Science Standards for kindergarten is about forces – “compare the effects of different strengths or different directions of pushes and pulls on the motion of …
Apple Annihilator is the 3rd STEM Challenge in my back-to-school series. These challenges are great for fall apple activities and studies of forces and motion! Working against a criteria & constraints list, students (individually or in partners) will design an apple wrecking ball built for annihilation and/or accuracy.
Force and motion have to be one of my favorite units to teach! First, you can teach it at any time of the year. Movement doesn't happen at certain times of the year. It's everywhere all the time! Second, it's fun to teach because it's hands on. And that's what kids love. It keeps them
An exciting collection of experiments for learning about forces and motion. Make rockets, cars and drop paint-filled balloons
Are you studying the laws of motion in science this year? Then you'll want this fun Force and Motion Printable Pack! It's free and will lead you and your child through the steps of experiment and observation that require only a penny, a marble, a magnet, and a block.
Engineering~Math~Art~Science These 9 STEM/STEAM force and motion activities and challenges are a perfect way to integrate more STEAM strategies into a force and motion unit. These activities can be used throughout a unit as each topic is covered (gravity, friction, inertia, motion, magnetic and othe...
Get your students excited and engaged with this Clothes Pin Car STEM 4.0 Physical Science Challenge! Students can participate in this hands-on, interactive, collaborative group exercise to experience the change between potential, kinetic, and gravitational energy firsthand. This STEM activity foster...
Push and Pull Sort (Force and Motion) This resource has the following: Two Anchor charts: Pull and Push 1 sorting sheet with pictures 1 answer key 1 recording sheet (It's only in color) Great for review, test prep, science center, homework or group work. Learners of the World
After making the ramp to get all of our food items for those experiencing homelessness down the stairs, the kids started showing an interest in ramps and how things roll. We grabbed onto this interest and set up some ways for them to explore these concepts further! We learned that force is either pushing or pulling. We also learned that nothing can move without some sort of force. But sometimes things moved without us pushing or pulling them, especially on a ramp or if we dropped it. We discovered the force of gravity and enjoyed exploring through art! We created an incline plane so that gravity could pull marbles down through globs of paint! They noticed that sometimes the paint created resistance and slowed the marble down! We let droppers push paint out onto paper and gravity pull the paint down the paper! We created a collaborative art piece by using the forces of push and pull! Here they pushed and pulled the brushes across the canvas. They pushed toy trucks across the canvas in paint and also made the canvas into an inclined plane so that gravity could pull the trucks down. They pushed and pulled cardboard across some paint to create more marks. They also dipped yarn into paint and used forces of push and pull to flick the paint or drag it across the canvas. Here is our collaborative art piece so far! We are taking a little break from it for now, but will definitely add more as the year goes on! My amazing Student Teacher put together this display to show their Force and Motion art! We made some salt dough to show how sculptures are also made using the forces of push and pull. They created plans and then pushed and pulled the dough to create these sculptures! They loved this so much that I brought out the clay. We have some very talented sculptors in our class! As we started learning g about simple machines, we started out with ramps. Here they were challenged to create an inclined plane that would make the ball roll and stop at the end of the rope. Only two were able to do it! I set out materials for them to try and create some Rube Goldberg machines. When creating these, they collaborated, worked as a team, problem solved over and over and over and showed persistence to get them to work! They really showed grit and did not give up, sometimes working multiple days to get them to work! We also explored levers, screws, wedges and pulleys. We also learned about pulleys and how they make lifting loads easier! In fact, we learned that simple machines make all of our work easier! Marble runs were a favorite! This inquiry into force and motion and simple machines let these kids practice and use so many skills that future employers will look for! They came up with creative, innovative ideas, used critical thinking skills, tested them out, dealt with frustration and handled it, collaborated with others, worked together (teamwork), problem solved, and dealt with disappointment appropriately if they couldn’t get it to work. These kids amazed me constantly as they used they skills and I look forward to seeing what else they will do with them!
These paper plate mazes inspire kids to have lots of fun with magnets. They'll have even more fun learning to build them as they work on STEM skills!
Learn how to implement these six best force and motion activities to help your primary students have fun while learning this content in the classroom.
Hello Everyone! Next week we will begin a science unit on force and motion. We will investigate how things move and what changes can occur. I put together a quick little unit to help support the things we already do. I wanted something to spark the kids curiosity and scientific thinking. I love the activities included in the AIMS science curriculum, but wanted to put a little fall twist on them. So...Here are a couple of pics from the unit. If you need a few things to go along with your force and motion unit Roll on over and CLICK HERE!! :) Hope you're having a great weekend. Til next time, thanks for stopping by!! Joyfully! Nancy
Are you teaching force and motion? Do you need some push-and-pull activities? Check out this article for classroom-tested ideas and lessons!
