Thinkabara

🔬 8th Grade · ScienceMS-PS2-2Unit 2: Forces & motion

Newton’s first law

Google Classroom

🎯 Objective: Students investigate inertia.

Lesson outline

  1. Coin-card trick.
  2. Discuss.
  3. Write.
  4. Exit: example of inertia.

Lesson 1 of 5 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

MS-PS2-2

Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), middle school — Physical Science (discipline-specific model)

🏁 Unit goals

  • Apply Newton’s laws
  • Investigate gravity, electric and magnetic forces

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

🦫 Encyclopedia: Science🦫 Kids encyclopedia⚡ Capy Live class quiz

🗓️ Plan the whole year like this

Add 8th Grade Science to your free Lesson Planner: enter your timetable once and every period shows the next lesson, skipping weekends and school breaks.

Add to my planner See the year’s sequence

More lessons in “Forces & motion”

  1. Newton’s first law
  2. Newton’s second law
  3. Newton’s third law
  4. Electric and magnetic forces
  5. Gravity

Something to improve in this lesson? Tell us.