Physics Instructional Guide

Gravitation

Physics

Quarter 4

McGraw Hill Module 7

DIFFERENTIATION IN ACTION

Skill Building

STEM Unit Project- Have students apply what they learned in their module to their Unit Projects Data Analysis Lab: How does Earth’s orbit compare to Neptune’s?? (p. 182)

Extension

FORMATIVE ASSESSMENTS

Standard 3.1

ELA CONNECTIONS ● N/A MATH CONNECTIONS ● Reason abstractly and quantitatively. ● Model with mathematics.

● Use units as a way to understand problems and to guide the solution of multi-step problems; choose and interpret units consistently in formulas; choose and interpret the scale and the origin in graphs and data displays. ● Defne appropriate quantities for the purpose of descriptive modeling. ● Choose a level of accuracy appropriate to limitations on measurement when reporting quantities. ● Interpret expressions that represent a quantity in terms of its context. ● Choose and produce an equivalent form of an expression to reveal and explain properties of the quantity represented by the expression.

RECOMMENDED INSPIRE RESOURCES

PAGE MATERIALS NEEDED TIME

● CER ● Book ● Computer

Module Opener

Encounter the Phenomena: How can gravity keep moons orbiting planets but also cause things to fall?

160 - 161

45Min

Launch Lab: Model Mercury’s Motion

● DQB ● Book ● Chromebooks

Lesson1: Planetary Motion& Gravitation

Engage:

162

10Min

Launch the Lesson: Planetary Motion & Gravitation