Systems, Up, Up and Away!
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A lesson plan for Grade 5 Science
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- Appropriate grades
- 5
- Subjects
- science (physics and physical science, technology and innovation)
- Provider
- American Association for the Advancement of Science
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This single lesson is designed to allow students to explore how changing parts or amounts will impact the properties of a system. Specifically, students will explore how changing individual features of a film canister rocket will impact its performance.
NOTE: It is strongly recommended that this lesson be used along with the Science NetLinks lesson entitled “Systems”, in which students observe, describe, and construct simple systems. Students should understand that how the system's ability to function is dependent on the amount and type of parts and how they are assembled. Research also suggests that students tend to examine the separate qualities of the objects within the system rather than seeing the interaction between the objects. Students need to start to understand that a system is actually an interaction of parts. They need to move away from the notion that the properties of a system belong to the individual parts.
North Carolina Curriculum Alignment
Science (2005)
Grade 5
- Goal 4: The learner will conduct investigations and use appropriate technologies to build an understanding of forces and motion in technological designs.
- Objective 4.06: Build and use a model to solve a mechanical design problem.
- Devise a test for the model.
- Evaluate the results of test.
- Objective 4.06: Build and use a model to solve a mechanical design problem.
