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Help your students explore balanced and unbalanced forces with the Forces and Motion Virtual Lab Activity with Guided Student Worksheets & Physics PhET Simulation!

Designed to promote scientific inquiry, this no-prep interactive virtual lab activity allows students to explore forces and motion using an NGSS-aligned phenomena-based science simulation! The student worksheet guides students through the simulation to ensure comprehension and understanding, while also encouraging students to make predictions, observations, analyze data, and form conclusions. Check out the preview to see more!

Skills Students Will Practice:

⚗️ Test their Pre-Existing Knowledge of Balanced vs. Unbalanced Forces

⚗️ Analyze the Relationship between Mass & Force

⚗️ Calculate an Object's Mass based on its' Acceleration

⚗️ Identify how Applied & Friction Force impact an Object's Movement

⭐ This Activity is Perfect for:

⚗️ Middle school and high school science lessons

⚗️ NGSS-aligned science instruction

⚗️ Virtual labs for blended, digital, or distance learning

⚗️ Sub plans, enrichment, or independent practice

NOTE: This activity links to the free Interactive from PhET Simulations. Check it out below!

Forces & Motion: Basics

Purchase includes the 4-page Student Worksheet (PDF), 4-page Teacher Answer Key (PDF), and 4-page Digital Student Worksheet (Google Slides) that is hyperlinked in the Teacher Answer Key.

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Forces and Motion Virtual Lab Worksheets | NGSS Physics Inquiry PhET Simulation

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What others say

"This was a useful resource for when I needed to be out and had a sub. Students were able to complete it independently. "
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Victoria G.

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Description

Help your students explore balanced and unbalanced forces with the Forces and Motion Virtual Lab Activity with Guided Student Worksheets & Physics PhET Simulation!

Designed to promote scientific inquiry, this no-prep interactive virtual lab activity allows students to explore forces and motion using an NGSS-aligned phenomena-based science simulation! The student worksheet guides students through the simulation to ensure comprehension and understanding, while also encouraging students to make predictions, observations, analyze data, and form conclusions. Check out the preview to see more!

Skills Students Will Practice:

⚗️ Test their Pre-Existing Knowledge of Balanced vs. Unbalanced Forces

⚗️ Analyze the Relationship between Mass & Force

⚗️ Calculate an Object's Mass based on its' Acceleration

⚗️ Identify how Applied & Friction Force impact an Object's Movement

⭐ This Activity is Perfect for:

⚗️ Middle school and high school science lessons

⚗️ NGSS-aligned science instruction

⚗️ Virtual labs for blended, digital, or distance learning

⚗️ Sub plans, enrichment, or independent practice

NOTE: This activity links to the free Interactive from PhET Simulations. Check it out below!

Forces & Motion: Basics

Purchase includes the 4-page Student Worksheet (PDF), 4-page Teacher Answer Key (PDF), and 4-page Digital Student Worksheet (Google Slides) that is hyperlinked in the Teacher Answer Key.

Looking for more Physical Science Virtual Labs? Shop these products

⚗️ Momentum & Collisions Guided Virtual Science Lab Activity

⚗️ Gravitational Forces Guided Virtual Science Lab Activity

⚗️ Circuit Construction Guided Virtual Science Lab Activity

⚗️ Kinetic & Potential Energy Guided Virtual Science Lab Activity

⚗️ Energy Forms & Transfer Guided Virtual Science Lab Activity

❗Permission is granted to copy pages specifically for student or teacher use only by the original purchaser or licensee. The reproduction of this product for any other use is strictly prohibited. Copying this product in any part and placing it on the Internet (even on a personal website) is strictly prohibited and a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DCMA).

_________________________________________________________________

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Rated 5 out of 5
October 25, 2025
This resource was good for the phet lab and helped lead my students through the simulation.
Michelle J.
257 reviews • Louisiana
Grades taught: 6th, 7th, 8th
Rated 5 out of 5
May 29, 2025
This was a useful resource for when I needed to be out and had a sub. Students were able to complete it independently.
Victoria G.
413 reviews
Grades taught: 6th
Rated 4 out of 5
December 14, 2023
This resource was nice! I really enjoy the PHET simulations and the students are really engaged with them as well.
Alania C.
273 reviews
Grades taught: 8th
Rated 4 out of 5
November 29, 2023
My students liked doing this activity. They felt it would be helpful for their quiz.
Howard B.
22 reviews
Grades taught: 11th
Rated 5 out of 5
October 17, 2023
New 8th grade teacher. Thank you for a great resource.
Kathleen T.
657 reviews
Grades taught: 8th
Rated 4 out of 5
January 11, 2023
great lab for students to explore and they enjoy the freedom
Karis H.
401 reviews
Grades taught: 9th
Student populations: Learning difficulties
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Apr 8, 2023
Thank you!
Rated 4 out of 5
April 26, 2022
Students enjoyed doing this virtual lab. It is well written and easy to follow.
Bryanna T.
27 reviews
Grades taught: 8th
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Apr 28, 2022
Thanks! :)
Rated 4 out of 5
November 17, 2021
Nice for a sub.
Lynn S.
40 reviews
Grades taught: 11th
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Standards

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NGSSMS-PS2-2
Plan an investigation to provide evidence that the change in an object’s motion depends on the sum of the forces on the object and the mass of the object. Emphasis is on balanced (Newton’s First Law) and unbalanced forces in a system, qualitative comparisons of forces, mass and changes in motion (Newton’s Second Law), frame of reference, and specification of units. Assessment is limited to forces and changes in motion in one-dimension in an inertial reference frame, and to change in one variable at a time. Assessment does not include the use of trigonometry.
NGSSHS-PS2-1
Analyze data to support the claim that Newton’s second law of motion describes the mathematical relationship among the net force on a macroscopic object, its mass, and its acceleration. Assessment is limited to one-dimensional motion and to macroscopic objects moving at non-relativistic speeds. Examples of data could include tables or graphs of position or velocity as a function of time for objects subject to a net unbalanced force, such as a falling object, an object sliding down a ramp, or a moving object being pulled by a constant force.
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