JANUARY 20, 2014 CATHERINE MUNRO & CHRISTINE PUDSEY

Our
Learning
Centre
Our learning centre
presented Sir Isaac
Newtons Three Laws of
Motion. Our station set up
consisted of a 3-tiered
poster board containing
information about Isaac
Newton and describing the
three laws with simple
words and supporting
images. Additionally, we
had a vocabulary poster
related to motion and we
had a poster listing some of
the steps in the scientific
method for students to use
during the experiments. For each of the laws we had two or three activities or experiments we could
conduct to demonstrate the law.
Learning Intentions:

Students can understand key vocabulary specific to Newtons Laws of Motion.

Students can recognize how factors of mass and force affect movement.
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Learning
Centres Day

AT RANDERSON
RIDGE ELEMENTARY
SCHOOL
SIR ISAAC NEWTONS THREE
LAWS OF MOTION
JANUARY 20, 2014 CATHERINE MUNRO & CHRISTINE PUDSEY
Experiments

Assessment:

Formativetesting for understanding through
questions and using thumbs up method as concepts
were introduced.

Summativestudents were asked to share one idea
that stuck out to them and/or were asked to answer
questions specific to one of the Laws presented.

Learning Intentions linked to Activities:

Newtons First Law Egg Spinning Experiment:
Students can grasp that the liquid inside of a raw egg
moves when the egg is spun around and the liquid
keeps moving and, therefore, so does the egg even
after attempting to stop it. Objects want to keep
doing what they are doing.

Newtons First Law Cup over Cardboard
Experiment: Students can see that the cup stays in its
position when the cardboard is pulled out and drops
down onto the mouth of the water jug.

Newtons First Law A Body in Motion Experiment:
Students can see how an object in motion wants to
continue that motion; when a person is running with
a ball and drops the ball, the ball follows the person,
it keeps moving.Experiments
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First Law of Motion

Things want to keep
doing what they
are already doing
Egg Spinning Experiment
Cup over Cardboard
Experiment
JANUARY 20, 2014 CATHERINE MUNRO & CHRISTINE PUDSEY
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Learning Intentions linked to
Activities:

Newtons Second Law Marble
Experiment: Students can see how an
object with more mass needs more
force to move and an object with less
mass needs less force to move



Newtons Second Law Car with
Weights Experiment: Students can see
how a car with more mass (added
weight) wont travel as far along a
ramp as one with less mass if the same
force is used because objects with
more mass require more force.

Second Law Of Motion

Acceleration of an object depends
on the mass of the object
and the amount of force applied
JANUARY 20, 2014 CATHERINE MUNRO & CHRISTINE PUDSEY
Experiments
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Third Law of Third Law of
Motion
::
For every action there is an equal
and opposite reaction
Magic Can Experiment:
Students watch as a magic can
rolls one way, stops and then
rolls back. The teacher explains
that an elastic band winds up
inside in one direction (when the
can is rolled) and then unwinds
(when the can rolls back). This
demonstrates that an action has
an equal and opposite reaction.
Newtons Third Law Bouncing Ball
Experiment: Students can see when a ball
is dropped to the ground it bounces or
rebounds back to about the same height as
it was dropped from.
Newtons Third Law
with Newtons Cradle:
Students can see an opposite and equal
reaction when a steel ball on one side
swings so does the one on the opposite side.