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Calculating Net Force Scavenger Hunt Activity | Balanced and Unbalanced Forces

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Grade Levels
6th - 9th
Resource Type
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Pages
19 pages (12 station cards in color, B&W, low ink option, plus recording sheet)
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Description

Are you looking for a fun activity that allows your students to practice calculating the net force acting on objects experiencing balanced and unbalanced forces? This printable and digital scavenger hunt is an engaging and student-led, low-prep task that helps your students review finding the net force of by considering all forces acting on an object. There are twelve questions on printable station cards included (three printing options). A digital version for Google Forms™ is also provided.

What’s Included

  • 12 printable scavenger hunt station cards in 3 color options (color, B&W, low-ink)
  • Access file for digital version of scavenger hunt (for Google Forms)
  • Printable and digital recording sheet to help your studens keep track
  • Answer Key

Standards:

Supplemental Activity for NGSS MS-PS2-2: Force and Motion, TEKS 6.8B and TEKS 8.6A

Printable Version

Simply print the station cards and distribute them around the room. To prevent students from following others around the loop, I usually print 4 to 5 sets on different colored paper and have smaller groups of students follow a ‘color loop’, e.g. the green or blue station cards. The cards are designed so that students can begin at any of the station. They answer the question on their card, then look around until they spot the answer on the top bar of one of the remaining cards. This will become their next question card. Once they have answered all twelve questions correctly, they will find themselves back at their first station.

Google Forms™ version

Once you copied the Google Form, you can it assign via the usual platforms (e.g. Google Classroom) to your students. They will be prompted to find the answer to the question on station card A, then select the answer card showing the correct answer and click ‘next’ at the bottom of the form. This will take them to their next station card. They will need to keep track of the order of station cards as they will need to enter this sequence to complete the task.

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How to use this resource:

⭐ Assessment of prior learning

⭐ Early finishers

⭐ Science Centers

⭐ Formative assessment of (newly learned) information

⭐ Homework

⭐ Mid- or end-of-unit review / Test Prep

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Total Pages
19 pages (12 station cards in color, B&W, low ink option, plus recording sheet)
Answer Key
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Teaching Duration
30 minutes
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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.

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