What is a force?

Did you know that...

and...

We declared these two facts "new learning" through experimenting, reading, and discussing.  I read non-fiction books about force and we pulled out facts.  We used those facts to talk about the ideas.  The children then saw those ideas in action through small experiments.

What did we do?  

• We rolled different sized balls to see how they moved and compared them.
• We watched and waited for things to move.  (The didn't unless a force happened!)
• We rolled things down a ramp.
• We changed the motion of rolling objects.
• We made moving objects collide.
• We sorted tools we use by pushing or pulling.

Stay tuned for the next "new learning" post-it!

Through all of this we learned that... force is a push or a pull and objects stay in place unless a force happens.