Free-Falling Objects

by: Page Keeley and Rand Harrington

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students' ideas about how objects with different masses (or weights) behave in free fall where air resistance is negligible. The probe shows whether students can relate their beliefs about how objects fall to a table of numbers.

Grade Levels

Elementary High School Middle School

Topics

Assessment Phenomena Physical Science Physics Three-Dimensional Learning

Details

Type Book ChapterPub Date 5/1/2010Stock # PB274X1_36

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