Motion

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Children heighten their awareness of motion in their surroundings by going on a Motion Search. They practice describing an object’s motion with words and drawings and learn to incorporate aspects of distance, time, speed, change of speed, and path into their descriptions. Children use their bodies and balls to experience different paths of motion; they investigate speed by comparing how far they can move in a fixed amount of time using different motions.
 * Cluster 1: Describing Motion**
 * ** Lesson 1: Searching for Motion **
 * ** Lesson 2: Drawing Motion **
 * ** Lesson 3: Observing and Describing the Path of Motion **
 * ** Lesson 4: Conducting Speed Trials **

Children explore how forces (pushes and pulls) cause starts, stops, and changes in speed or direction of motion. As they think of ways to get a toy car to start moving and a rolling ball to change direction, children discover that successful tries involve either a push or a pull. They explore the effect of big and little forces on toy cars, and they perform controlled collisions with marbles along a track to see the results.
 * Cluster 2: Changing Motion**
 * ** Lesson 5: Changing Motion:Starting Things Moving and Changing Direction **
 * ** Lesson 6: Comparing Big and Small Forces **
 * Lesson 7: Creating Collisions: Rolling and Bumping
 * Lesson 8: Experimenting with Collisions
 * Lesson 13: Motion Madness

Children learn about two ubiquitous, but often overlooked or misunderstood, forces that affect motion: friction and gravity. They explore friction by comparing the motion of pennies sliding across different surfaces and the traction of different shoes on smooth surfaces. They learn about gravity by investigating its effects on their bodies and on falling objects. They also imagine and draw what the classroom would look like without the force of gravity.
 * Cluster 3: Friction and Gravity**
 * Lesson 9: Slowing Things Down with Friction
 * Lesson 10: Sliding and Sticking: Exploring Friction and Traction
 * Lesson 11: Gravity: Down to Earth
 * Lesson 12: Dropping Marbles: More Experimentation with Gravity