Description
Take the guesswork out of planning your force and motion unit with ready-to-use lessons, activities, labs, and assessments for grades 5 6 7 8.
This complete force and motion unit helps students build an understanding of forces and motion before applying what they’ve learned to Newton’s Laws of Motion, speed, velocity, acceleration, collisions, and motion graphs. Daily lesson plans help you move through the unit in a logical order without spending hours searching for activities or piecing together materials from different sources.
Students get multiple opportunities to learn and apply force and motion concepts through science readings, worksheets, hands-on investigations, graphing and data analysis, demonstrations, and STEM challenges.
Students will explore:
- Balanced and unbalanced forces
- Gravity, friction, and inertia
- Speed, velocity, and acceleration
- Calculating and analyzing motion
- Newton’s First Law of Motion
- Newton’s Second Law of Motion
- Newton’s Third Law of Motion
- Motion graphs and data analysis
- Real-world applications of force and motion
This force and motion unit includes:
- Daily Lesson Plans: The Google Doc includes all the materials you need to teach this unit. All materials are linked on the lesson plan, which walks you step by step through each lesson. Includes questions to ask students.
- Classroom Posters: Terms include gravity, inertia, acceleration, velocity, action, reaction, and Newton’s laws of motion.
- Forces PRINT and DIGITAL science worksheets and graphic organizers to introduce balanced and unbalanced forces, gravity, inertia, and friction to your science students.
- Measuring Motion: Speed, Velocity, and Acceleration: Students will learn the definition, examples, and practice using the formulas to measure the speed, velocity, and acceleration of objects. This lesson includes a teacher presentation, student note-taking sheets, a student reading packet, speed and acceleration word problems, a paper airplane lab activity, and a word search.
- First Law of Motion: Students will learn Newton’s 1st law of motion, “Every object will remain at rest or in uniform motion in a straight line unless compelled to change its state by the action of an external force.”
- Teacher demonstration for the 1st law
- Second Law: Introduces force, mass, and acceleration in an easy to understand format. Includes word problems to practice using the formula F = ma
- Newton’s Third Law: Students will learn Newton’s 3rd law, “For every action (force), there is an equal and opposite reaction.” Includes a hands-on activity; students create balloons and connect their understanding of Newton’s laws. (Print and digital options for the laws of motion activities are included)
- Newton’s Review Activity includes 4 different worksheets of review for force and motion.
- Graphic Organizers: This allows students to demonstrate their understanding of the three laws of motion.
- Halloween Review Activity
- Digital Escape Room
- Review activities – TWO activities are included. The first has 24 printable (black and white and color), digital, and Boom review questions to assess knowledge of the three laws of motion. The second allows students to work together to summarize their understanding of the laws of motion.
- Assessment
- NGSS aligned MS-PS1-2 Project: Students will create a cellphone case to prevent it from being damaged when dropped.
- STEM Project – Students will use materials to create a vehicle to keep an egg safe as it travels.
Aligns to support NGSS MS-PS2.1
You’ll receive the Google Doc which has all materials linked and ready for you to print and go.Â
This force and motion unit is more than a collection of worksheets and activities. Included daily lesson plans connect the individual resources into a complete, organized unit, so you know what to teach, what activity to use next, and how the concepts build from forces and motion to Newton’s Laws, speed, velocity, acceleration, collisions, and more.
Instead of spending hours piecing together your force and motion lessons, you’ll have the readings, worksheets, labs, activities, assessments, and lesson sequence ready to use.
Read more about how I teach this unit on force and motion here.
A Complete Force and Motion Unit
Instead of planning each lesson separately, use the included daily force and motion lesson plans to guide your instruction. Lessons incorporate a mix of direct instruction, independent practice, science reading, hands-on learning, and application so students encounter important concepts in more than one way.
The unit includes force and motion worksheets, Newton’s Laws activities, science readings, labs, motion graph activities, STEM challenges, review activities, classroom posters, assessments, and answer keys.
Check out this feedback from teachers.
- I do not have textbooks for my science class, so this bundle was extremely helpful! The activities that go with each law are engaging, and my students love them! So glad I purchased this unit!
- First time teaching this, so this was a great unit to help!!
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- My students loved these activities!
- Loads of goodness
- I can really use these resources. Thank you for sharing your hard work.
- These will be great to use with my middle school students!
- This was a fantastic product, easy to use, and excellent ideas for all of Newton’s Laws.
- I love that it’s Google compatible! Thanks!
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