Unpacked Content
Scientific and Engineering Practices
Engaging in Argument from Evidence
Crosscutting Concepts
Cause and Effect
Knowledge
Students know:
- Two interacting objects can exert forces on each other even though the two interacting objects are not in contact with each other.
- Fields exist between objects exerting forces on each other even though the two interacting objects are not in contact with each other. The existing fields may be electric, magnetic, or gravitational.
Skills
Students are able to:
- Articulate a statement that relates a given phenomenon to a scientific idea, including the idea that objects can interact at a distance.
- Identify and use multiple valid and reliable sources of evidence to construct an explanation that fields exist between objects exerting forces on each other even when the objects are not in contact.
- Use reasoning to connect the evidence and support an explanation that fields exist between objects exerting forces on each other even when the objects are not in contact.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- Fields exist between objects exerting forces on each other even when the objects are not in contact.
Vocabulary
- Argument
- Evidence
- Field
- Forces
- Distance
- Exert
- Contact
