Running Stop

WHY?

Children will always be fascinated with motion. In this activity they experience first hand a portion of Newton's First Law of Motion: that an object that is moving forward tends to keep moving. This is called inertia. But, also remember that in most real situations some force is needed to keep an object moving because there is always some drag or friction that acts to slow an object down.

ASSESSMENT: Can the student communicate what they observed?

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four The student is able to communicate that it was hard to stop because an object in motion tends to keep moving and that this is called inertia.

three The student is able to communicate that it was hard to stop because they were running fast.

two The student is able to communicate that it was hard to stop at each point.

one The student is able to communicate that they ran fast from point to point.

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