- Grade: 6
- Standard 4: The Physical Setting
Students will understand and apply scientific concepts, principles, and theories pertaining to the physical setting and living environment and recognize the historical development of ideas in science.
such as those caused by gravity, magnetism, and mechanical forces.
**Reference**
- Key Idea 5: Energy and matter interact through forces that result in changes in motion. Students should be able to observe and describe relative positions between objects in their world. Exploring the observable effects of gravity and magnetism may help students develop an understanding of the reason for the direction of an object’s motion. Manipulation and application of simple tools and machines may help students learn about the relationships between forces and motion.
- PERFORMANCE INDICATOR 5.1
such as those caused by gravity, magnetism, and mechanical forces.
**Reference**
Student's will be exploring gravity and the individual credited for acknowledging its existence. Students will be broken into various roles such as scientist, Sir Isaac Newton, architect all exploring the wonders of gravity.
Student will use the internet and various websites in order to obtain the needed information. Students will then create blogs presenting the information they found.
The scientist will provide facts about Isaac Newton and explain what has changed about his finding.
The person playing Isaac Newton will provide blogs in the form of journal entries by Isaac Newton about his ideas about the importance and purpose of gravity.
The architect will explain the way gravity effect the way our areas look, how gravity effects our building? Specifically The leaning Tower of Pisa.
What is gravity?
What roles does it play in our lives?
How does it effect architecture?
Links:
Read Up on Newton's Laws of Motion historian
Read Up on, What is Gravity?
NewtonThe Gravity Song
Gravity
Architects and scientist (present day)
Steph,
ReplyDeleteYour idea of exploring Newton and gravity is very important. You have provided standards and a way to look at gravity from different points of view.
I'm not sure that the presentation template of blogs is the appropriate one for all of your characters. For example, Newton might have kept a blog of his experiments and reading, reenacting his ideas works well. However, for a scientist and architect, the presentation should include something other than a blog. A scientist would have performed experiments with gravity which could be demonstrated to the class as lab experiments. The architect would have designed a tower, and explained why the Leaning Tower of Pisa is inclined. A model of the Tower should be used and explaining how it was built by constructing it. Then, analyze what went wrong?
Also, make sure that students look up definitions and have a template that they answer regarding the force of gravity, experiments about the force attracting two masses at the same time (elephant and rock hitting earth at same time), and other experiments.
Students should also brainstorm to think what knowledge they have on the subject. Decide on experiments based on the literature. Come up with a hypothesis and then test their hypothesis.
As usual, your links and visuals are outstanding.
Also, don't forget to post on other students' blogs.
Prof. Glick :)