Take a look at acceleration within the context of automotive technology. They vary the mass on a toy car and run it down a ramp, exploring Newton's second law of motion. Though this is a classic lab activity, you will appreciate the layout of this particular lab sheet.

Concepts

newton's second law of motion, newton's laws of motion, sir isaac newton, acceleration, force

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Additional Tags

stem, acceleration, newton's second law of motion, force, science

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Pros

• Meets Common Core State Standards for following scientific procedures
• Extremely neat and attractive lab sheet format that also adheres to the scientific method

Cons

• A reference is made in the materials list to page 251, which is not part of this document, and on the publisher's website, page 251 does not contain any links; you might want to white-out this statement prior to photocopying the page

Common Core

RST.6-8.1 RST.6-8.3 RST.6-8.10 RST.9-10.2 RST.9-10.3 RST.9-10.10