What makes things move? part of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
This activity is an inquiry approach to teaching what force is. Students will learn what push, pull, gravity, and friction are.

Investigating Motion: What Causes Objects to Move? part of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
This activity is a structured inquiry into why objects move and why some objects move farther than others. Students will make predictions on how far an object will move when blown on, blow on the objects, measure the distances they moved and record their findings.

The First Law of Motion: The Tower of Coins part of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
This activity will provide the students with an opportunity to use inquiry. This activity will also help them to begin to understand friction and inertia,.

Physics Motion Activities for Second Grade part of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
The activity consists of a story and two experiments demonstrating how push and pull can make objects move.

Identifying the force (push/pull) used to put sports equipment into motion part of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
This activity is designed for a primary classroom (large area) investigation where students investigate sports equipment and decide what force; push or pull (twist) is used to put the object in motion. Students develop a method of recording the data colleted and can present the information gathered.

Investigating Motion: Paths of a marble part of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
This inquiry based activity will help students discover that marbles move in a variety of ways and the path in which it starts to move can be changed.

What makes things move? part of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
This activity is an inquiry approach to teaching what force is. Students will learn what push, pull, gravity, and friction are.

Investigating Motion With Marbles part of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
Through the use of marbles, this investigative experiment gives students the opportunity to learn about motion.

Experiments with Air and the pressure air exerts part of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
This activity includes reading a non-ficiton book and trying the experiments with air listed in the book. Students will record their observations regarding the experiments in an observation journal.

How and Where Things Move part of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
Students explore a variety of objects to discover the many ways the objects move and what force makes them move.

Why Does It Go So Fast? Investigating what makes rockets go up in space part of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
This activity is an inquiry based activity where students investigate how the force that causes rockets to go into space is similar to air being released from a balloon.

Investigating Movement of Tops part of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
This is a guided inquiry lesson using tops to teach the students how to raise questions and seek answers by making careful observations. They will note what happens when they explore the tops and then share their results with others.

Marble Stop part of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
This activity is a classroom investigation where students test the impact track shape has on vertical distance of a rolling object.

Balloon Rockets part of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
This activity is a hands-on investigation that teaches students that air resitance affects how things move and that pressure from compressed air can move things.

A Balance Between Art And Science part of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
This lesson is a classroom activity where students learn to use their balance knowledge to create a beautiful mobile.

Bumps and Buckles: A Lesson on Motion part of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
This activity is a guided discovery where students gather information on how to add a seat belt to a clay figure that is sitting on top of a toy car. The clay figure should stay in place when it hits a speed bump placed after a ramp.

Investigating Balance. Change vs Interaction part of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
This activity can be conducted in the classroom. The students are given an opportunity to discover the basic concept of balance/counterbalance and how evenly distributed weight affects an object.