A 3rd Grade learning experience incorporating online experiments and interactive sites to be used beyond school hours

1. Shades Mountain Elementary
Third Grade
eLearning
January 14, 2012

2. Words to know
 Force
 Friction
 Gravity
 Motion

3. Force and Motion
 Force - pushing and pulling
 Motion- act of moving
Pushing Pulling

4. Force and Motion Test 1
 Click on the
picture and
record your
results on
your chart.
 Or copy and paste link:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/sc
ienceclips/ages/10_11/forces_a
ction_fs.shtml

5. Friction
 Force that makes objects move together
Experiment
MATERIALS NEEDED: your hands
STEPS TO FOLLOW:
1. Put your palms together.
2. Rub your palms back and forth several times.
3. What happens? (Your palms feel hot after rubbing
them together.)

6. Gravity
 Gravity – produces a force that pulls objects toward
each other http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghPSl3j0gE4

7. Simple Machines
 View a list of Simple Machines
(There are six basic simple machines.)
http://www.mikids.com/Smachines.htm
 Edheads Simple Machines
http://www.edheads.org/activities/simple-machines/frame_loader.htm
You must complete with a parent or
student partner.
Begin in The House then go to The Tool
Shed

8. Compound Machines
 Compound Machines Explained
Click on Link
SchoolTube
Or copy and paste code:
http://www.schooltube.com/video/cf8a17920734a83818aa/Com
pound%20Machines

9. Rube Goldberg
 How many simple machines can you
find in a “Rube Goldberg Machine”?
(Click on the links or copy and paste)
 http://www.fossweb.com/modules3-
6/LeversandPulleys/activities/rubegoldb
ergmachine.html
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qybU
FnY7Y8w

10. Assignments
1. Review entire PowerPoint including links
2. Complete Force and Motion Test: Choice
1 or Choice 2 (or both-optional)
3. EdHeads with an adult or student partner
4. Return signed eLearning page to teacher
by Friday, January 20th
5. Complete Glog by Friday, January 27th