Unit 2.4: Power part of TIDeS:TIDeS Teaching Materials:Physical Science
In this unit, students explore the relationship between energy and power when they design an experiment to measure and calculate their maximum power output by running up a staircase at a fast, medium, and slow ...

Unit 4.3 Nature and machine: implementation of forces part of TIDeS:TIDeS Teaching Materials:Physical Science
How do forces cause Earth's crust to collide and divide? Students plan, design, and construct a model of plate tectonics to further develop a concept that they began to investigate back in Unit 3. Then, ...

Unit 3.1 How can we observe the unobservable? part of TIDeS:TIDeS Teaching Materials:Physical Science
Matter is made of atoms, but we cannot see them. How can we observe the "unobservable"? Students will observe the changing behavior of objects to interpret atomic structure and practice 'observing ...

Unit 2.3: What is energy and how can we transform it? part of TIDeS:TIDeS Teaching Materials:Physical Science
What is energy and how can we transform and utilize it? Students have already touched on the idea of energy in a previous unit, but in this unit we investigate it more deeply through activities that connect ...

Unit 4.2 Why do objects change their motion? part of TIDeS:TIDeS Teaching Materials:Physical Science
Why do objects change their motion? In this unit, students discover force types and the connection between a force and an acceleration. In an engineering and design project, students will construct a ...

Unit 4: May the forces be with you. Or without you. part of TIDeS:TIDeS Teaching Materials:Physical Science
Summary: Unit 4 introduces students to position, velocity, acceleration, and Newton's three laws of motion. Students engage with the materials through hands-on explorations, generation and analysis of their ...

Unit 4.1 What is where? part of TIDeS:TIDeS Teaching Materials:Physical Science
What is "where"? The location of anything is determined by its position, but any "position" is relative and needs a frame of reference. In this module, students will track and measure simple ...

Physical Science part of TIDeS:TIDeS Teaching Materials:Physical Science
In this physical sciences course for future teachers, students explore typical concepts of energy, power, heat engines, pressure, density, buoyancy, fluids, projectile motion, and Newton's laws of motion. This ...