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Pool Noodle Roller Coaster Lesson Overview

Keywords:: PASTEM, PASTEMTOOLKIT, Math, Science

Summary

A STEM lesson the uses pool noodles and marbles to engage students in an activity that helps students to understand different types of energy and how to calculate speed.

Subject:: Measurement and Data, Numbers and Operations, Physics
Level:: Middle School
Material Type:: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan

Standards

PA.ST.3.2.7.A

Pennsylvania Academic Standards for Science and Technology (2002)

Grade 7

Learning Domain: Inquire and Design

Standard: Explain and apply scientific and technological knowledge.

Degree of Alignment: 3 Superior (1 user)

PA.ST.3.2.7.B

Pennsylvania Academic Standards for Science and Technology (2002)

Grade 7

Learning Domain: Inquire and Design

Standard: Apply process knowledge to make and interpret observations.

Degree of Alignment: 3 Superior (1 user)

PA.Math.CC.2.1.7.E.1

Pennsylvania Core Standards for Mathematics

Grade 7

Learning Domain: Numbers and Operations

Standard: Apply and extend previous understandings of operations with fractions to operations with rational numbers.

Degree of Alignment: 3 Superior (1 user)

PA.Math.CC.2.2.7.B.1

Pennsylvania Core Standards for Mathematics

Grade 7

Learning Domain: Algebraic Concepts

Standard: Apply properties of operations to generate equivalent expressions.

Degree of Alignment: 3 Superior (1 user)

PA.Math.CC.2.2.7.B.3

Pennsylvania Core Standards for Mathematics

Grade 7

Learning Domain: Algebraic Concepts

Standard: Model and solve real-world and mathematical problems by using and connecting numerical, algebraic, and/or graphical representations.

Degree of Alignment: 3 Superior (1 user)

PA.SCI.3.2.7.B1

Pennsylvania Standards for Science and Technology and Engineering Education

Grade 7

Science Domain: Physical Sciences: Chemistry and Physics

Topic: Physics

Standard: Describe how unbalanced forces acting on an object change its velocity. Analyze how observations of displacement, velocity, and acceleration provide necessary and sufficient evidence for the existence of forces.

Degree of Alignment: 3 Superior (1 user)