Marble Racers Lesson Plan（大理石选手教案）.pdfVIP

Marble Racers Lesson Plan Overview In this lesson, students create racetracks for marbles and experiment by making changes to their designs to improve the way the marbles travel down the course. Grades: Preschool and K-3 Length of Lesson: Approximately 45 minutes Related Video: “Careering Off Course” episode Learning Goals: After completing this lesson, students will be able to:  Make a prediction or hypothesis.  Understand how to make changes to an experiment in order to achieve desired results.  Observe, discuss, compare and contrast results.  Understand that changes in angles can cause objects to fall at different speeds.  Describe the impact that different changes have on results.  Describe and present findings. TM Related Goals from the Space Racers Curriculum: Scientific Inquiry: Exploration and Investigation: We obtain information and learn about the world through exploring objects and investigating how things work. Conducting scientific investigations, engaging in hands-on experiences, and asking open- ended questions can foster greater conceptual understanding of our world.  Explore new things as a way to broaden one’s understanding of the world.  Use prior knowledge and experiences to develop specific questions that will lead to information, solutions, and answers.  Form theories/hypotheses/predictions to explain how and why things happen.  Design and carry out simple cooperative investigations that apply learning from past experiences and support new discoveries.  Discuss the findings of investigations. Observation: Looking carefully is one way to learn about things around us.  Take note of a variety of properties and describe as accurately as possible (e.g., number, shape, size, length, color, texture, weight, motion, tem