Lance Atkinson

This four to five day lesson is an individual or team design project. Students practice engineering and scientific principles through research, design, building, testing and reflection. For high school, the final drop day can be from the bleachers.

This lesson plan uses the researched based learning strategy of engage, explore, explain, elaborate and evaluate to take students through an investigation on how motion is measured. The core principle of all concepts of force, energy and technology is how we measure and define motion. Students will use real world scenarios and lab investigations to develop a fundamental relationship between position, velocity and acceleration.

Teach students how concepts of work and energy are applied to various situations. Students can explore how inputs and outputs of a system are related. Each station takes students through levels of mastery as they learn how to calculate work and determine how changes to a system are affected by exchanges of energy.

This lab sheet template is designed to help student learn to conduct explorations and investigations using the scientific method. Without making them follow the "cookie cutter" recipe for investigations, students are free to learn in their own way and identify the steps which caused them to possibly come up with misconceptions. This is ecspecially helpful in this digital world where there are many simulations and lab sheets that students can access and copy the answers to. This forces them to