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We need these materials to create models to demonstrate Newton's Laws. We are making balloon powered race cars, catapults, and more! This is a two to three day lesson in which students explore potential and kinetic energy transfer as they use the engineering design process to build catapults that launch marshmallows for distance and accuracy. Science and Engineering Practices: As students go through the engineering design process, they create catapults that can shoot marshmallows. In doing this, they apply scientific principles to design, construct and test a tool or system (SP6). In addition, in the warm up, students construct graphical displays of data to create linear relationships (SP4). Moreover, as students write an explanation of their findings after completing this activity, students construct written arguments supported by data and scientific reasoning (SP7). Crosscutting Concepts: Designing catapults also can provide students with practice in Cross Cutting Concepts of “Systems and Models” as well as “Energy and Matter”. Students use the catapults as a model that can show the input and output of energy and track how energy flows within the system (CCC Systems and Models). As they notice the relationship between potential and kinetic energy, students notice that energy may take different forms and that the transfer of energy can be tracked as energy flows

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We need these materials to create models to demonstrate Newton's Laws. We are making balloon powered race cars, catapults, and more! This is a two to three day lesson in which students explore potential and kinetic energy transfer as they use the engineering design process to build catapults that launch marshmallows for distance and accuracy. Science and Engineering Practices: As students go through the engineering design process, they create catapults that can shoot marshmallows. In doing this, they apply scientific principles to design, construct and test a tool or system (SP6). In addition, in the warm up, students construct graphical displays of data to create linear relationships (SP4). Moreover, as students write an explanation of their findings after completing this activity, students construct written arguments supported by data and scientific reasoning (SP7). Crosscutting Concepts: Designing catapults also can provide students with practice in Cross Cutting Concepts of “Systems and Models” as well as “Energy and Matter”. Students use the catapults as a model that can show the input and output of energy and track how energy flows within the system (CCC Systems and Models). As they notice the relationship between potential and kinetic energy, students notice that energy may take different forms and that the transfer of energy can be tracked as energy flows

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