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This no-prep paper AND digital paperless product is all of the notes, labs, activities, practices, and tests you need to teach your motion and force unit in your physical science class. Content covered includes describing motion, calculating distance, displacement, speed, velocity, and acceleration, graphing motion, net force, Newton’s Laws of Motion, common forces, the Law of Universal Gravitation, and the Law of Conservation of Momentum. Links to video lectures are included for all notes. All assessments are differentiated for two levels – CP and Honors. Not only that, but the student packets come in a paperless digital version that can be used in Google Drive™ and/or Microsoft OneDrive™. This is perfect for the teacher who is in a 1:1 classroom, for someone who is hoping to integrate more educational technology to move towards becoming a paperless classroom, or if you are currently teaching via distance learning. Because it is all-inclusive, it is especially useful for new teachers, maternity leave, and flipped classrooms!
Note: This is Unit 2 in my Physical Science Curriculum Full Year Bundle. You can buy this unit for 20% off if you purchase it as a part of the full year bundle.
My complete physical science full year curriculum bundle is entirely aligned to the NGSS middle school physical science standards, and a few of the high school physical science standards. It is perfect for an 8th-10th grade physical science course that preps students to later take chemistry or physics (I have used this curriculum teaching all 3 grades successfully!)
This unit covers content related to the following standards:
In general, when writing each of my physical science units, I tried to incorporate as many different states’ physical science/IPC standards as possible, while most importantly keeping the content within the scope of the NGSS style. NGSS does not have specific standards designated for a physical science course vs. a chemistry 1 course vs. a physics course (just the middle and high school physical science standards that are part chemistry, part physics). Because of this, I wrote this curriculum for someone teaching a course that is half introduction to physics, half introduction to chemistry, and whose students will potentially go on to later take a full year chemistry 1 or physics 1 course. Therefore, the entire physical science curriculum covers all of the middle school PS NGSS, and touches on many of the high school PS NGSS.
Note: If you aren’t sure how your state standards compare to the NGSS, shoot me an email at itsnotrocketsciencestore@gmail.com with a PDF or link to your state standards and I will be happy to review them for you prior to you making a purchase!
This is the second unit I would teach in my physical science class, so I wouldn’t expect students to have any significant prior knowledge except for what was covered in my first Science Foundations unit (mainly lab skills, measurement, graphing, unit conversions, experimental design and technological
design.) This unit is math-heavy. Based on my teaching experience, I expect students to have either taken Algebra 1 prior to taking this course, or be concurrently taking it. That is the math skill expectation I have set as I wrote these units. If that is NOT the case for your students, keep that in mind as you move forward with this unit, as you may need to provide further support for them to be successful with the content.
When you download this product you will receive a zip file with 5 folders of files. Most of the documents in this product are secured PDFs, meaning you can print them but not copy/paste or edit the text. The paperless digital student packet will be accessed via a Google Drive™ link in a PDF file that students can type into but not change the essential content of. Editable versions (Word docs) are only included for the unit plans, quizzes, tests, and some aspects of the activities for you to customize for your classroom. The PowerPoint lecture notes also have editable text. This is to protect the copyright and intellectual property of my own work, plus the work of many dedicated clip artists and photographers whose graphics I purchased for commercial use to be included in this product. If you have questions about this, please don’t hesitate to email me with them prior to purchasing!
This unit covers 30 50-minute class periods or 17 90-minute block class periods. However, if you don’t have that much time available, you can cut out some of the activities, have students do one of the projects at home, or use the YouTube lecture videos that come with the unit to implement a flipped classroom style.
This resource already comes with all of the student handouts in a packet format that can be used on paper (PDF to print) or digitally in a paperless version for Google Drive™ and/or Microsoft OneDrive™. All of the PowerPoint notes also come with a lecture video to help your students learn from afar. You can see all of my lecture videos on my YouTube channel here, and feel free to email me at itsnotrocketsciencestore@gmail.com for a free sample of a paperless digital packet so you can see what the formatting and usability is like prior to purchasing so you can tell if it is a good fit for you and your students.
*NOTE* I did not specifically write this unit for distance learning or homeschool settings, but this entire unit can still be used in a modified format. I include a “Distance Learning Tips” document with suggestions for using these resources in a virtual teaching and/or homeschool setting to help you. If you have questions about which resources may or may not work from home, shoot me an email and we can discuss!
I started creating packets for my students over six years ago, and I love them so much more than interactive notebooks. While interactive notebooks are great resources that work for many teachers, I have found the packet strategy to be a more appropriate tool for using in the secondary classroom setting with my students. I love using the packet for many reasons:
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