Plan and conduct an investigation to provide evidence of the effects of balanced and unbalanced forces on the motion of an object.

Authority Status:

Original Statement

Indexing Status:

Yes

Education Level:

3

Subject:

Science

Statement Notation:

3-PS2-1

Statement Label en-US: Performance Expectation

Description en-US: Plan and conduct an investigation to provide evidence of the effects of balanced and unbalanced forces on the motion of an object.

Comment en-US: Clarification Statement: Examples could include an unbalanced force on one side of a ball can make it start moving; and, balanced forces pushing on a box from both sides will not produce any motion at all.

Comment en-US: Assessment Boundary: Assessment is limited to one variable at a time: number, size, or direction of forces. Assessment does not include quantitative force size, only qualitative and relative. Assessment is limited to gravity being addressed as a force that pulls objects down.

Language:

English

Concept Term:

Forces and Interactions

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