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Open Ed Sci: 8.1 Contact Forces Unit PlanOpen Ed Sci: 8.1 Contact Forces Unit Plan
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Open Ed
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7th - 9th
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1470L
Unit Plan

Open Ed Sci: 8.1 Contact Forces

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In this unit, students explore a variety of phenomena to figure out, "Why do things sometimes get damaged when they hit each other?" Student questions about the factors that result in a shattered cell phone screen lead them to investigate what is really happening to any object during a collision.

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Concepts

design, energy, kinetic energy, mass, push, speed, collisions

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design process, free-body diagrams, investigate, math models, system models, bscs: 8.1 contact forces

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  • Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • The intended use for this resource is Instructional

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