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Steele Standards:
K- Plan and conduct an investigation to compare the effects of different strengths or
PS2-1 different directions of pushes and pulls on the motion of an object.
K-PS2- Analyze data to determine if a design solution works as intended to change the speed
2. or direction of an object with a push or a pull.*
Subject Matter/Content:
Prerequisites:
Lesson 1:
What machines are
What different machines are used for
Clothing, food, construction
What work words are
Lesson 2:
Why builders need big machines
Different types of machines
Excavator
Dumptruck
Crane
Bulldozer
Cement Mixer
Lesson 3:
Motion, speed, and strength
How to knock down cement walls, house, building, etc.
Wrecking ball and what it is
Wrecking ball swung from high, medium, low
Lesson 4:
Speed, Direction, strength
How to make bowling ball knock down pins
Bounce of bumpers
Bounce = change of directions
Keep speed up and bounce off bumpers to hit as many pins as possible
Key Vocabulary:
Mountains: An elevated platform
Falling Rocks: Pieces of rock that come loose and tumble down the mountain; from rain,
etc.
Tumble: To suddenly topple to the ground
Content/Facts:
Mountains are made of rock
When mountains get wet rocks can tumble down
Called falling rocks
Falling rock sign
Rocks can tumble fast or slow
The faster something is moving, the harder it will push whatever it crashes in to
Acts as a bulldozer
Put something in the way of the boulder, it will bounce off and change directions
Introduction/Activating/Launch Strategies:
(Preview, book, Voc, predict, purpose)
Call students to the carpet and take a deep breath before getting started
Ask students about what we did last time during science
Push and pull of wrecking ball
Noticed from high, medium, and low swings
Tell students about what we will be doing for this lesson
Speed and direction changes
Talking about mountains and falling rocks
Pull up PowerPoint slides
Development/Teaching Approaches:
Talk about mountains
People might go to ski, they’re in national parks, live near them
Pull up pictures of rocks by mountains
Ask students if they have ever seen one of the signs before
Ask students what they think it means
Students can turn and talk
3 students can share
Explain that the signs are warning people to be aware of falling rocks
Mountains are made of rock
Sometimes when mountains get wet (or sometimes not wet) the rocks can come
loose and tumble down the mountains
Rock could tumble slowly and only move a little bit down the mountain
Stop and ask: What do you think might happen if a rock tumbles slowly and hits a tree?
Students can turn and talk
3 can share their answers
Now ask: What do you think will happen if a rock that’s moving fast bumps into a tree?
Students can turn and talk
3 can share
If a small rock that is slowly tumbling hits a tree, it will push up against the tree, but the
rock will stop right where it hit the tree
If a rock tumbles fast, it will have a stronger push. Strong enough to knock down a tree.
Just like a bowling ball knocking over bowling pins
The faster a thing moves, the stronger it pushes something
Why there’s falling rock signs
Warning to drivers that rocks could tumble so fast down a mountain, they could damage
your car
True Story:
In Italy, house and barn built at the bottom of a hill
A large rock came tumbling down and missed the house and animals, but the barn
was in its way
Not tumbling very fast, but it was a big rock
The rock gave big enough push to knock down the walls of the barn
Acted like a bulldozer
Ask students: What could you do to change the direction a giant rock was rolling so that
it wouldn’t hit the house
Students can turn and talk
3 students can share their answers
Explain activity:
Game called boulder bump
Protect tiny town from being hit by a boulder that is rolling down a hill
Tiny town is at the bottom of a hill made of cardboard
Have to get the boulder into the dumptruck to be taken away without hitting any
houses
5 strong poles made of push pins
Putting push pin pulls in the boulders (ping pong balls) path, the boulder
will change directions
Put pushpin pulls in the right places in the cardboard to get the boulder right into
the back of the dump truck
Allow students to sit in a circle and work in whole group to complete this activity
Work with and ask students questions to find the right place to put the push pins in the
cardboard
I am in charge of experiment
Give students 7-10 minutes to figure out where the pushpins go
Closure/Summarizing Strategies:
If students can’t figure it out at the end of the time, let them see where they belong
Ask students about tumbling rocks, their speed, changing directions, and what happens
when they hit things
Ask students to tell me their favorite part of the lesson
If time is remaining, students can get out play dough for a brain break
Accommodations/Differentiation:
Colton can sit at desk
Redirect Jensen if necessary.
Reflective Response:
Report of Student Learning Target/Objectives Proficiency Levels