Description

With this lab, students can partake in a hands-on, drill and practice lab that focuses on calculating net force and identifying balanced and unbalaced forces.

This activity includes the files for the lab pamphlet, answer key, and images that can help with lab setup.

This is a fun lab that can be setup quickly and can be completed by students in a single period (45 to 60 minutes).

Required materials: Six 2"x4" blocks... 4-6" in length, 12 Screw Eyes, and 12 Red Spring Scales of 2000g/20N capactity.

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Lab: Block Pull Forces Lab

Name: Lab: Block Pull Forces Lab
Brand: Travis Terry
SKU: 4321873
Price: 2.00 USD
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.67 (6 reviews)

Rated 4.67 out of 5, based on 6 reviews

4.7 (6 ratings)

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Highlights

Grades

5th - 8th

Subjects

Physics, Science

Standards

NGSSMS-PS2-2

NGSSHS-PS2-1

Description

With this lab, students can partake in a hands-on, drill and practice lab that focuses on calculating net force and identifying balanced and unbalaced forces.

This activity includes the files for the lab pamphlet, answer key, and images that can help with lab setup.

This is a fun lab that can be setup quickly and can be completed by students in a single period (45 to 60 minutes).

Required materials: Six 2"x4" blocks... 4-6" in length, 12 Screw Eyes, and 12 Red Spring Scales of 2000g/20N capactity.

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4.7

Rated 4.67 out of 5, based on 6 reviews

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Fun lab resource

Rated 5 out of 5

August 4, 2025

Met expectations

Great value

Standards-aligned

Students had a great time with the block forces lab!

julia S.

44 reviews

Grades taught: 5th

Rated 4 out of 5

April 7, 2020

My students love anything hands on. This was a great way to reinforce what they were learning about forces! Great hands on activity, Thank you!

Katherine C.

354 reviews

Grades taught: 8th

Student populations: Autism, Emerging bilinguals, Learning difficulties

Rated 4 out of 5

March 11, 2020

Great lab! Easy to use and a great visual for students to see how balanced and unbalanced forces work.

MBintheMiddle

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140 reviews

Grades taught: 5th

Student populations: Learning difficulties, Mild to severe disabilities

Rated 5 out of 5

October 30, 2019

Easy procedure and really helps students get to see net forces. I love how it gets the students using the spring scales, which is not always the most used tool in Physical Science. My students enjoyed the hands on!

Science Success with Sally

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123 reviews

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Dec 18, 2019

Thanks for your feedback!

Rated 5 out of 5

October 11, 2019

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Oct 18, 2019

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Rated 5 out of 5

April 24, 2019

great

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141 reviews

Questions & Answers

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.