Newton's Third Law: Action-Reaction Force Pairs

Lesson Plan · Grade 7 · Science

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Grade

• 7

Method

• five_e

Phases

• Name: Engage
• Minutes: 20
• Purpose: Surface students' prior intuitions about forces by presenting a discrepant event — a balloon-powered cart moving in the opposite direction of escaping air — so that initial ideas about pushes, pulls, and motion can be elicited before any formal vocabulary or explanation is introduced.
• Materials

Exit Ticket Suggestion

• Q1. Draw and label an action-reaction force pair from either the balloon cart or the NASA video. Include the direction of each force and identify what object exerts each force.

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