Name: Megan Gregoire Date: 4/6/21

Subject/Content: Science-Balance and Motion Time: 2:30-3:00

Standards:
● S3.C.3.1.1 Identify and describe an object’s motion
● 3.2.3.B1- Explain how movement can be described in many ways.
● 3.2.3.B7
● Distinguish between scientific fact and opinion.
● Ask questions about objects, organisms, and events.
● Understand that all scientific investigations involve asking and answering questions
and comparing the answer with what is already known.
● Plan and conduct a simple investigation and understand that different questions
require different kinds of investigations.

Objectives:

● Second grade students will be able to describe and identify if an object's motion is
balanced or unbalanced by accurately conducting an experiment.
● Second grade students will be able to describe if an object is balanced or unbalanced by
reading an experiment and accurately completing an exit ticket giving evidence.

Materials:
● Google Classroom
● SeeSaw
● Anchor Chart (attached at end of lesson)
● 24 books
● Exit ticket
● Balance and motion experiment sheet (attached at end of lesson)
○ https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Vg-GLX3hR2n-uNtPKl8l11GhRpr4RYZ4I
uKuM82KuYQ/edit?usp=sharing
● Kahoot game link:
https://create.kahoot.it/share/balance-and-motion/ee95fa3a-6699-4e5b-8d47-0fa51facd08
e

Instruction (30 minutes):

Time Activity

2:30-2:35 -Play Kahoot review on balance and motion

https://create.kahoot.it/share/balance-and-motion/ee95f
a3a-6699-4e5b-8d47-0fa51facd08e

2:35-2:45 -Turn and Talk/Discussion: “Turn and Talk to a partner

about what it means when something is balanced and
unbalanced.”
 -Review anchor chart on balanced and unbalanced
forces. (anchor chart attached to end of lesson)

2:45-3:00 -Complete balance and motion experiment as a whole

group activity. (Balance and motion experiment
sheet-copy on SeeSaw for Virtual students)
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Vg-GLX3hR2n-
uNtPKl8l11GhRpr4RYZ4IuKuM82KuYQ/edit?usp=sh
aring
-Make predictions about experiment.
-Complete experiment.
-Discuss a conclusion found about balanced and
unbalanced forces.

3:00 -Closure: “Turn and Talk to a partner about what

causes a balanced object to become unbalanced?”
-SeeSaw: Exit ticket
-Directions, “Read the experiment and tell if the object
is balanced or unbalanced and how you know this?​”

Anchor Chart

Experiment Sheet
 Question Prediction

Will it be easier to balance on one foot with your arms up

or down?

What will happen if you are balanced on one foot with

your arms up and put one arm down?

What would happen if you were balanced on one foot and

someone pushed you?

Can a book be balanced on your head?

What happens when you have a book on your head and

start to walk?
 Experiment Result

Balance on one foot with your arms down then up. What
is easier?

Balance on one foot with both arms up, then put one arm
down. What happened?

Get with a partner. One person will balance on one foot

the other will gently push the other. What happened?

Try to balance a book on your head. Is it possible?

Balance a book on your head and start to walk. Does the

book stay balanced or become unbalanced?
SeeSaw: Exit ticket