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Grade 8 Science lesson plan: Forces & motion

Topic: Forces and motion, Newton's laws (MS-PS2-2). Adjust the settings, then copy the prompt.

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Prerequisite skills to check: balanced and unbalanced forces (3-PS2-1); speed as distance divided by time; reading tables and line graphs; independent and dependent variables.

Key vocabulary: force, net force, balanced forces, unbalanced forces, mass, acceleration, friction, inertia.

Warm-up idea: Roll an empty cart and a loaded cart down the same ramp, or show a video, and ask which one is harder to stop and why.

Exit ticket idea: Students plan a quick cart-and-ramp test: the variable they will change, the one they will measure, and two things they will keep the same.

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