- we began class by answering three questions for a warm up
1. What part of your egg drop design worked well? explain
2. What part of your egg drop design worked poorly? explain
3. Suggest a way to improve your design if you were to perform this activity again. Be specific
- after the warm up we watched a Bill Nye movie about gravity
- the clip does a great job explaining to the students that all matter experiences gravity
- the clip also shows footage from the Apollo 15 mission where an astronaut drops a hammer and a feather and they fall at the same rate, proving that everything accelerates due to gravity at the same rate
- this is a short video clip of one part of the video I showed the students
- after Bill Nye we began discussion of Newton's first law of motion
- Newton's first law of motion states that an object in motion will stay in motion and an object at rest will stay at rest unless acted upon by an outside force
- I used a tennis ball to demonstrate to the students some key parts of Newton's first law
- after the in class demonstration the students watched two short video clips to reinforce the first law
Homework
- write a paragraph of at least 4 sentences explaining a real world example of Newtons First Law
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