Name: Megan Gregoire Date: 4/13/21

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 an object's motion of spinning
by accurately conducting an experiment.
● Second grade students will be able to describe an object's motion of spinning and forces
by accurately completing an exit ticket and giving evidence.

Materials:
● Google Classroom
● SeeSaw
● Anchor Chart (attached at end of lesson)
● 24 whiteboards and markers
● Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lyo_WYJCXRg&t=1s
● Exit ticket
● Experiment sheet (attached at end of lesson)
○ https://docs.google.com/document/d/11HJhYR4PQERStryT3gOKeCfcL6SbFSRy
4x0EH4S-DxU/edit?usp=sharing
● 90 Pennies
● 18 cardboard circles
● 18 thumb tacks
● Rolls of tape

Instruction (30 minutes):

Time Activity

2:30-2:40 -Review Anchor Chart on the forces of spinning

-Turn and talk: “What force causes the spinner to slow
down?”
-Watch Video on Super Spinners:
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lyo_WYJCXRg&t
=1s

2:40-3:00 -Complete spinning experiment as a whole group

activity. (experiment sheet-copy on SeeSaw for Virtual
students)
https://docs.google.com/document/d/11HJhYR4PQER
StryT3gOKeCfcL6SbFSRy4x0EH4S-DxU/edit?usp=sh
aring
-Make predictions about experiment.
-Complete experiment.
-Discuss the conclusions found.

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

did in your experiment to make the spinner spin.”
-SeeSaw: Exit ticket: “Make a prediction of what you
think would happen to the spinner if 10 pennies were
tapped on instead of five. Would it spin slower or
faster, would it spin for a longer or shorter time?Why
do you think this?”

Anchor Chart
 Experiment Sheet

Statement Prediction

Will the spinner spin with no weight?

How many pennies will it take for the spinner to be

balanced and continuously spin?

How many seconds will the spinner spin before it stops?

Draw the location you think the pennies should be tapped

for the spinner to continuously spin?
 Experiment Result

Did the spinner spin with no weight?

How many pennies did it take for the spinner to be

balanced and continuously spin?

How many seconds did the spinner spin before it

stopped?

Draw the location where you tapped the pennies. Did it

work?
SeeSaw: Exit ticket