SNC VOC Physics

Day 2 – Simple Machines

Activity Materials Timing Notes

Brain Teaser/Puzzle 5 min. You are walking through a field and
find something to eat. It doesn’t
have bones and it doesn’t have
meat. You pick it up and put it into
your pocket. You take it home and
put it on a shelf, but three days later
it walks away. What is it?
An egg
KWL Chart Paper 10 min KWL: Simple machines
Markers
Demo – Force Something to 5 min Brainstorm definition for force
move
Watch to time
Lesson on Force 20 min Force – anything that causes
something to speed up, slow down,
or change direction
~ acceleration
- acceleration diff. Than speed
(rate that speed changes –
speed/unit of time = N)
see chart to explain
- change in direction is also
considered acceleration

Force = mass x acceleration

(newton’s second law of motion)

Examples of forces:
1) friction
2) gravity

Quiz Info 10 min Force, Work, Load

(Friday)
Journal Prompt 10 min. How do we use scientific inquiry
(asking and trying to answer
scientific questions) everyday?
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Day 2 – Simple Machines

Stopped Speeding up Slow down

Velocity 0 m/s 5 m/s 10 m/s 5 m/s 0 m/s
Acceleration 0 m/s2 5 m/s2 5 m/s2 -5 m/s2 -5 m/s2
0 seconds 1 second 2 seconds 3 seconds 4 seconds
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Day 3 – Simple Machines

Activity Materials Timing Notes

Brain 5 min.
Teaser/Puzzle
What is 5 min Force – anything that makes a change in speed or direction
Force?
Demo – Something to 15 min Force
Force and move http://www.brainpop.com/science/motionsforcesandtime/force
Work Video Watch to
time Work
http://www.brainpop.com/science/motionsforcesandtime/work

Broom 2 15 min Describe activity

Activity brooms/sticks - 2 brooms with a rope holding them
- 1 person holding the rope and 2 people trying to pull the
1 rope brooms apart

Develop a hypothesis
Test
What did we 5 min
find and
Why?
Pulley Video 10 http://www.brainpop.com/technology/simplemachines/pulley/
min.
Journal Prompt 10
min.
Free Time 10 min