Audience
Educators
Grade Levels
Grades 5-8
Subject
Physical Science, Forces and Motion, Gravity
Type
Educator Guides, Lesson Plans / Activities
Students learn the science of sports with the activities in this educator guide. The activities are applications of Newton’s Laws of Motion.
Among the guide’s six activities students will do the following:
- Construct a CD hovercraft and apply Newton’s Laws of Motion to make hovercraft work.
- Use gravity to locate the center of mass of irregular-shaped objects.
- Investigate the principle of conserving angular momentum.
- Create and play simulated microgravity sports with a balloon.
Spaced Out Sports Educator Guide [10MB PDF file]