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I love how this article broke the forces down into content that isn't too difficult and wordy to understand. I love how it provided a pre-assessment so you can better evaluate your students ... See More

I love how this article broke the forces down into content that isn't too difficult and wordy to understand. I love how it provided a pre-assessment so you can better evaluate your students level of understanding. Once you have the pre-assessment you will be able to better prepare for the unit of force/motion. I plan on using this :)

“How Does Force Affect Motion?” Review

To best teach students a teacher must first know what the student understands and what misconceptions they may have on a topic. It is very important to have several quality recommendations o... See More

To best teach students a teacher must first know what the student understands and what misconceptions they may have on a topic. It is very important to have several quality recommendations on hand when explaining something new to students. Having quality recommendations is also a great way to move students to a deeper understanding. There are many recommendations within this article. It is a great resource to find ideas that will help further students understanding of a concept. This article is extremely helpful when trying to identify the misconceptions that students have when they walk into your classroom. This article offers a formative assessment that teachers can use to assess what the students have learned about force, motion, friction, and gravity. This article gives a very precise way to teach the forces that affect motion.

May the Force Be With You!!

Knowing what the students are thinking is half the battle in helping students understand new concepts. That is certainly true in Gerald Darling’s article on “How Does Force Affect Motion? A ... See More

Knowing what the students are thinking is half the battle in helping students understand new concepts. That is certainly true in Gerald Darling’s article on “How Does Force Affect Motion? A huge piece of the article is identifying the misconceptions that students bring into the classroom. Darling created a pre-assessment survey, “a formative assessment”, that probes students ideas about how force can change a motion and how forces ,”friction and gravity” affect motion. I think this article has many quality recommendations about how to move students towards a deep understanding of these concepts

The Fantastic Four

This is an excellent article that gives a very clear way to teach the four forces that affect motion. It has great ideas for activities to teach these concepts. It also addresses misconcep... See More

This is an excellent article that gives a very clear way to teach the four forces that affect motion. It has great ideas for activities to teach these concepts. It also addresses misconceptions dealing with force and motion. This is a great read!

Force and motion

Journal Article Reviews 1. Why did you choose to put this article in your collection? Be specific...."because it looked interesting" is not sufficient. I picked this article because I feel l... See More

Journal Article Reviews 1. Why did you choose to put this article in your collection? Be specific...."because it looked interesting" is not sufficient. I picked this article because I feel like sometimes is hard for students to understand how force affects the motion of objects. 2. What new information did you learn? This article thought me how to explain to students how force affects motion. It also gave me some preassessments and activities that I can do with my students. 3. What TEKS would it go with and how could you use this information in your classroom? 1.6.C The student is expected to: demonstrate and record the ways that objects can move such as in a straight line, zig zag, up and down, back and forth, round and round, and fast and slow. 4. Based on your experience, is there anything in the article that you agree with? Disagree with? Have questions about? I agreed with all the information and activities that the article gave me. I also really like that these activities are more hands on.

How does force affect motion?

I chose this article to be in my selection because I feel that my weakness area of topics if force. New information that I learned was new ways to understand force and motion, and how to ans... See More

I chose this article to be in my selection because I feel that my weakness area of topics if force. New information that I learned was new ways to understand force and motion, and how to answer students questions and misconceptions. I would use this article in relation with second grade TEK: 2.6A which goes into great detail of how force and motion can effect everyday objects in which this article does a great job showing an array of objects you can test with force and see how motion is connected. I think this would be a great class day to do stations with the different objects and give students time to investigate how they work together. In this article, I agree that many students come in with a misconception that students understand when an object moves, but may not understand how it changes speed or direction. I know this is something I was always confused with in elementary school, but had teachers who went into further depth with our class on this topic so that we would understand it fully.