NEWTON'S LAWS

DAY 1

WARM-UP (7 MIN)

In your notebook, always include the date, the lesson title, and do the warm-up task associated to that date. 

Task:  *Complete the Musical Warm-Up:  "What is that?"*

WARM-UP DISCUSSION (3 MIN)

What stops objects from moving?  What causes objects to move?

LAB:  *FLIPPIN WITH INERTIA* - BRYLEE TERESKA

In your notebook, always include the date, the lesson title, and do the warm-up task associated to that date.  FOR LABS, IF NO SHEET IS PROVIDED, YOU MUST RECORD STEP TITLES AND YOUR ANSWERS IN YOUR SCIENCE NOTEBOOK 

Purpose:  To see how inertia takes place in flipping a water bottle

Materials:  Empty plastic water bottle and water 

Procedure:  

STEP 1: Make a hypothesis to see which water amount will be the easiest to flip. (75%, 50%, 25%) 

Make another hypothesis to see how many times it will take you to land the bottle with each percentage of water. 

STEP 2: Fill the bottle with 75% water.

Flip the bottle until you land it. Record how many times it took you to land it on a data table.

STEP 3: Repeat step 1 but with 50% water.

STEP 4: Repeat step 1 but with 25% water.

Conclusion: Is it easier to flip the water bottle and land it with more or less water? Why?

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Explain how your actions in this lab apply to Newton's First and Second Law.

THE NOTES:  DAY 1 VOCABULARY (10 MIN)

*Write these down in your notebooks!*

Inertia - the tendency of an object to resist a change in motion

Acceleration - the rate at which velocity changes (both speed and direction)

Acceleration = Final Speed - Initial Speed / Time

Newton’s first law - an object at rest will remain at rest, and an object moving at a constant velocity will continue moving at a constant velocity, unless it is acted upon by an unbalanced force.

Newton’s second law of motion - acceleration depends on the object’s mass and on the net force acting on the object. (Law of Inertia)

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EVALUATION (10 MIN)

We'll wrap it up here with today's assessment in your learning management system.  Feel free to study your notes and/or the videos below.  We always recommend viewing the videos the night before the lesson.