Overview
Table of contents
Unit Plan
| Week | Topic | Activities |
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| 1 | Fields and Electric Charge |
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| 2 | Magnetism and Electric Current |
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| 3 | Assessment Activity |
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State Standards
PS2-4
Use mathematical representations of Newton’s Law of Gravitation and Coulomb’s Law to describe and predict the gravitational and electrostatic forces between objects.
Clarification Statement: Emphasis is on both quantitative and conceptual descriptions of gravitational and electric fields.
Assessment Boundary: Assessment is limited to systems with two objects.
PS2-5
Plan and conduct an investigation to provide evidence that an electric current can produce a magnetic field and that a changing magnetic field can produce an electric current.
Assessment Boundary: Assessment is limited to designing and conducting investigations with provided materials and tools.
PS3-5
Develop and use a model of two objects interacting through electric or magnetic fields to illustrate the forces between objects and the changes in energy of the objects due to the interaction.
Clarification Statement: Examples of models could include drawings, diagrams, and texts, such as drawings of what happens when two charges of opposite polarity are near each other.
Assessment Boundary: Assessment is limited to systems containing two objects.