Content Standards
8-9.PS.2: Physical Science
8-9.PS.2.2: Understand Concepts of Motion and Forces
8-9.PS.2.2.1: Explain motion using Newton’s Laws of Motion.
Atwood Machine
Fan Cart Physics
8-9.PS.2.3: Understand the Total Energy in the Universe is Constant
8-9.PS.2.3.1: Explain that energy can be transformed but cannot be created nor destroyed.
Air Track
Energy Conversion in a System
Energy of a Pendulum
Inclined Plane - Sliding Objects
Roller Coaster Physics
8-9.PS.2.3.2: Classify energy as potential and/or kinetic and as energy contained in a field.
Energy of a Pendulum
Inclined Plane - Sliding Objects
Potential Energy on Shelves
Roller Coaster Physics
Sled Wars
8-9.PS.2.4: Understand the Structure of Atoms
8-9.PS.2.4.5: Describe the relationships between magnetism and electricity.
Electromagnetic Induction
Magnetic Induction
8-9.PS.2.5: Understand Chemical Reactions
8-9.PS.2.5.1: Explain how chemical reactions may release or consume energy while the quantity of matter remains constant.
Correlation last revised: 9/22/2020