How would your Super Hero do in a world governed by the laws of Physics?
Raji Swaminathan asked just this question to her 7th grade Physics students. Use Newton's Laws of Motion and a superhero or character of your choice to create examples of how the laws work. This project involved research into the 3 Laws of Motion and then additionally tasked students with analyzing how a character of their choice would be influenced by those laws.
The students in Raji’s class dove right into this project. This was the kind of learning they really wanted to do!
They carefully researched the Laws of Motion, matched up the super powers of their chosen, or sometimes created, characters and were eager to show off what they had discovered. This is the type of creative energy students yearn for in their learning. Opportunities to demonstrate their understanding of new concepts coupled with the things they love outside the traditional classroom! The students could really explain and understand the 3 Laws of Motion to greater depth than a simple passage in a textbook.
This was a fantastic project!
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