The Forces in Action topic encourages students to develop a new understanding of the forces that govern our everyday lives, as well as the design process. During this topic, the children:

Discover that a force is a push or a pull. A force is always needed to get something to start to move.
Learn that forces have strength and direction and that friction and gravity are forces.
Predict motion of marbles, swings, and tetherballs based on past motion.
Discover that magnets cause a force on some materials and not others and can do this without touching the material.
Design, sketch, and build a magnetic device to solve a problem they think up.
Use balloons and other objects to experience how static electricity causes a force between objects, and that the force between electrically charged objects varies with the distance apart.

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