{"id":1630,"date":"2009-09-08T05:20:38","date_gmt":"2009-09-08T10:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/archives\/1630"},"modified":"2009-09-08T05:20:38","modified_gmt":"2009-09-08T10:20:38","slug":"teaching-physical-science-with-childrens-literature-forces-and-motion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/2009\/09\/08\/teaching-physical-science-with-childrens-literature-forces-and-motion\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching Physical Science with Children’s Literature: Forces and Motion"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Forces and Motion<\/em>\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0by Alvin Silverstein, Virginia Silverstein, and Laura Silverstein Nunn, is\u00a0a book introducing\u00a0readers to contact forces, forces at work, simple machines, motion and gravity, etc.<\/p>\n

When you are sitting still in a chair, what forces are at work?\u00a0 What happens if you tilt the chair on its back legs, or if ten people sit on your lap?\u00a0 How do the forces change?\u00a0 It is easy to see forces at work in a football game or at a theme park, but forces and motion happen in your daily life all the time without you even realizing it.\u00a0 Well-known science writers Alvin and Virginia Silverstein and Laura Silverstein Nunn explain different types of forces, how forces and simple machines work, the laws of motion, an dhow the laws act in different substances.\u00a0 The authors also reveal current research on forces and motion, showing ways that scientists and engineers are using this knowledge to improve almost every part of our modern lives. Here are a few excerpts.<\/p>\n

1. Are you ready to kick the game-winning field goal?\u00a0 <\/em>the football player asks himself.\u00a0 He swings his leg back and kicks the ball with tremendous force, sending it flying way up in the air.\u00a0 The ball twists and turns until finally the referee throws his arms up and yells:\u00a0 “It’s good!”\u00a0 Without that hard, forceful kick made my the football player, the ball might now have reached its target.\u00a0 Forces at work keep the action going in a football game. (pg. 4)<\/p>\n

2. Many people do not like working.\u00a0 But work is more than having a job, doing your chores, or getting your homework done.\u00a0 In science, work<\/em> has a very specific meaning.\u00a0 Work is what happens when a force makes an object move.\u00a0 Work is done when you sit down, lift weights, dance, or kick a soccer ball. (pg. 30)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Curriculum Connections<\/strong>
\nForces\u00a0and Motion <\/em>is an attractive and inviting book with full-color photographs and diagrams for children in\u00a0\u00a0third and forth\u00a0grade. For third grade, this book will allow students to investigate and understand simple machines and their uses (VA SOL 3.2).\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 For fourth\u00a0grade, Forces and Motion\u00a0<\/em>will allow students to investigate and understand characteristics and interaction of moving objects (VA SOL 4.2).<\/p>\n

Additional Sources <\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. An Invisible Force<\/em><\/a>\u00a0<\/em>is a book student can read and follow the quest to understand the laws of motion and gravity.<\/li>\n
  2. This website<\/em><\/a>\u00a0<\/em>has various activities the students can conduct to understand force, matter, energy, and motion.<\/li>\n
  3. This lesson plan<\/em><\/a>\u00a0<\/em>introduces simple machines and how we see and use them in everyday life.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Book: <\/strong>Forces and Motion
    \nAuthor: <\/strong>Alvin Silverstein, Virginia Silverstein, and Laura Silverstein Nunn
    \nPublisher: <\/strong>Twenty-First Century Books
    \nPublication Date:<\/strong> 2008
    \nPages:<\/strong> 112
    \nGrade Range: <\/strong>4-8
    \nISBN: <\/strong>978-0-8225-7514-6<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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