Inclined Plane
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In this multiple-day activity from Illuminations, students time balls rolling down inclines of varying lengths and heights. They then try to make inferences about the relationships among the variables involved.
North Carolina Curriculum Alignment
Science (2005)
Grade 7
- Goal 1: The learner will design and conduct investigations to demonstrate an understanding of scientific inquiry.
- Objective 1.05: Analyze evidence to:
- Explain observations.
- Make inferences and predictions.
- Develop the relationship between evidence and explanation.
- Objective 1.06: Use mathematics to gather, organize, and present quantitative data resulting from scientific investigations:
- Measurement.
- Analysis of data.
- Graphing.
- Prediction models.
- Objective 1.05: Analyze evidence to:
- Goal 6: The learner will conduct investigations, use models, simulations, and appropriate technologies and information systems to build an understanding of motion and forces.
- Objective 6.05: Describe and measure quantities that characterize moving objects and their interactions within a system:
- Time.
- Distance.
- Mass.
- Force.
- Velocity.
- Center of mass.
- Acceleration.
- Objective 6.05: Describe and measure quantities that characterize moving objects and their interactions within a system:
