Get a unit about how contact forces affect movement along with simple machines ready in minutes. It includes all our resources to teach energy for Grade 3 through activities, projects and complete lessons. Best of all, you don't have to plan anything because we did it for you!
This unit was designed specifically for Alberta Grade 3 science teachers. It includes:
- lesson plans with step-by-step instructions and options for modifications.
- student pages and templates.
- answer keys and suggested answers.
- photos of student examples.
- ideas for how to use this resource in the classroom, online, or a mix.
- digital versions of all the student reading and writing pages that use Google Slides. You must download the PDF files and use the access links in the files to get your digital copies.
- an alignment guide for Alberta Outcomes in each resource.
- a unit plan and a list of Alberta Science outcomes to help with planning.
These resources are included in this bundle:
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Contact Forces: ways to apply forces, strength of force, direction of force, changes to force, Newton’s 1st law; scientific method: objective observations, asking new questions; contact forces: applied, friction, tension and elastic/spring.
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Simple Machines Collaborative Poster: introduction to the six simple machines: screw, inclined plane, lever, wedge, wheel and axle, and pulley.
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Wheels, Levers and Inclined Planes: detailed investigations and exploring inclined planes, levers and wheels (and axles); brief information about screws, wedges and pulleys; building inclined planes, levers and devices that use wheels (and axles); exploring different types of levers (though students do not formally classify them); exploring different tools used by Indigenous People including the ulu, travois, red river cart, kakivak, bird dart, hide scrapers, arrowheads and many more; identifying different simple machines.
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Design a Carnival Attraction Simple Machines STEM Project: a task that uses as many simple machines as you teach: pulleys, levers, wedges, screws, inclined planes, wheels, and axles. Students will choose at least two for their project and should have a basic understanding of how those simple machines work to reduce the amount of force needed.
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scientific method outcomes are embedded into the lessons
These lessons align with:
- Alberta Science Curriculum © 2022 Grade 3 (new outcomes)
These lessons support:
- any lesson about forces, simple machines or physics.
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Ninja Note: This file is a ZIP file. It contains all the PDF files that contain each resource. Buyers need to download the ZIP and extract the PDF files to a computer. To access the digital versions, download the PDFs and use the links in the files.
