Summary
A short PBS LearningMedia collection of Hero Elementary clips and an investigation about motion. Children find ways to start, stop, speed up, slow down, and change the direction of a moving object.
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Teaching resources
Discussion questions
Discussion
These clips are about controlling how things move.
- What can you do to make an object speed up or slow down?
- How can you change the direction something is moving?
- What made it hard or easy to stop the object?
Quick work-a-long
Vocabulary: motion, push, pull, speed, direction.
Try it:
- Roll an object and find two ways to change its motion.
- Describe what you did to make it stop.