3.2P.1 DESCRIBE HOW FORCES CAUSE CHANGES IN AN OBJECT’S POSITION, MOTION, AND SPEED.
Lesson 19 Air and Water Pressure
- A: Parachute Man
- A: Falling and Gliding
- A: Classify Objects that Float or Sink
- A: Flying Hoops
- A: Spinning Blimps
- Engineering Connection: Fun with Bernoulli – use Bernoulli’s Principle to manipulate air pressure
Lesson 20 Tools
Lesson 21 Inclined Planes
Engineering Connections
- An Introduction to Inclined Planes
- Heave Ho! – dragging an object up a ramp is easier than lifting the object up
Lesson 22Levers
- TB: Levers
Lesson 23 Demonstrate a Pulley
- TB: How Pulleys Work
- Brainpop (If you have access to the site)
- Simple Video
- Video from MIT
Lesson 24 Gears
- TB: How Stuff Works
- TB: Explain that Stuff
- TB: DKFindout
- Video from NASA
- How Bike Gears Work? Video from PBS
A: Activities  TB: Teacher Background
Engineering Connections
- ENGINEERING UNIT – use knowledge of simple machines to design and build a pyramid
- Build Your Own Mobile
From SMILE
Curriculum Connections
- Literature Links for Air Pressure
- Performing Arts for Air Pressure
- Social Studies for Air Pressure
- Language Arts for Air Pressure
Very Capable Students
- Become a boat expert A-Z for boats
- Become a tool expert A-Z for tools
- Making Objects Move
- Measure the rate of rolling objects
- Plan, build, and test a ramp
- File Card Bridges
- Geodesic Gumdrops