Speed, force and energy: 6th to 8th science
Forces, motion and energy. A free 6th to 8th lesson plan with a hook, practice that links to free activities, and an exit ticket. Copy it and make it yours.
Lesson plan
Goal
- Students work toward: forces, motion and energy.
Hook (5 min)
- Ask the class: Why does a faster bike take longer to stop?
- Take two or three answers and write them where everyone can see them.
Teach (15 min)
- Say the big idea in one plain sentence: speed, force and energy.
- Show one example, then one that is not an example, and ask how the two differ.
- Have students tell a partner or a small group the idea in their own words.
Practise (20 min)
- Choose one for the whole class or let groups pick:
- Learn: Forces and Motion (https://peabody.kids/world/build/build-forces-and-motion)
- Learn: Kinetic and Potential Energy (https://peabody.kids/world/build/build-kinetic-and-potential-energy)
- Make: A chain reaction machine (https://peabody.kids/build/chain-reaction)
Exit ticket (5 min)
- On a slip or aloud: one thing I learned about speed, force and energy, and one question I still have.
- Sort the slips into: got it, nearly, not yet. Start tomorrow with the last pile.
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