Description

Bridging research and practice, FOSS Third Edition Modules engage students and teachers in enduring experiences that lead to deeper understanding of science and engineering concepts, as well as the natural and designed world. The Balance and Motion Module for Grades 1 to 2 will let students explore the global phenomena of living in a dynamic world where everything is in motion in different ways---such as objects that move from one to another, vibrate, or rotate around and around. Yet students will also learn how other things are stationary, stable for a time, balanced on a thin line between stop and go.

In the FOSS Third Edition The Balance and Motion Complete Kit with 5 hands-on investigation activities, students will: create and use representational models to demonstrate stable balanced systems; plan and execute examples of stable balanced systems; discover different ways to produce rotational motion; construct and evaluate toys that demonstrate spinning, and explain how they operate; design runways to control or change the motion of marbles; communicate observations and compare stability and motion, using precise vocabulary; plan and carry out investigations with sound and with magnetic force; and analyze and interpret observational data.