Plan and conduct an investigation to provide evidence of the effects of balanced and unbalanced forces on the motion of an object. ||Next Generation Science Standards||Grade 3||Physical Science||Motion and Stability: Forces and Interactions |||Make observations and/or measurements of an object’s motion to provide evidence that a pattern can be used to predict future motion. [Examples: a child swinging in a swing, a ball rolling back and forth in a bowl, and two children on a see-saw.] “||Next Generation Science Standards||Grade 3||Physical Science||Motion and Stability: Forces and Interactions |||Use evidence to construct an explanation relating the speed of an object to the energy of that object. ||Next Generation Science Standards||Grade 4||Physical Science||Energy |||Support an argument that the gravitational force exerted by Earth on objects is directed down.||Next Generation Science Standards||Grade 5||Physical Science||Motion and Stability: Forces and Interactions|||Plan an investigation to provide evidence that the change in an object’s motion depends on the sum of the forces on the object & the mass of the object.||Next Generation Science Standards||Middle School||Physical Science||Motion and Stability: Forces and Interactions |||Develop a model to describe that when the arrangement of objects interacting at a distance changes, different amounts of potential energy are stored in the system. [Emphasis is on relative amounts of potential energy. Examples: the Earth & a roller coaster cart at varying positions on a hill, changing the direction/orientation of a magnet, & static electrical on a balloon.] [Assessment on two objects & electric, magnetic, & gravitational interactions.] ||Next Generation Science Standards||Middle School||Physical Science||Energy |||Construct, use, & present arguments to support the claim that when the motion energy of an object changes, energy is transferred to or from the object.||Next Generation Science Standards||Middle School||Physical Science||Energy |||Analyze data to support the claim that Newton’s second law of motion describes the mathematical relationship among the net force on a macroscopic object, its mass, & its acceleration. [Objects subject to a net unbalanced force, e.g., an object falling , rolling down a ramp, or a moving- pulled by a constant force.]||Next Generation Science Standards||High School||Physical Science||Motion and Stability: Forces and Interactions
