Description

Comprehensive, affordable and effective, Delta Science Modules Edition 3 (DSM-3) Kits provide an inquiry-based, hands-on approach to teaching a specific science topic through the use of activities and investigative equipment. Delta Science Modules Newton's Toy Box Complete Kit will let students experiment freely with familiar toys and objects. As students explain their observations, they will prove Newton’s three laws of motion. The path of a tossed ball, the flip of a grasshopper toy, and the endless swing of clackers will reinforce the concepts of inertia, gravity, acceleration, mass, force, and momentum. Students will also engage in races, games, and challenges that emphasize the laws of motion, which govern everyday tasks and cosmic interactions. The kit includes a video so students can compare the behavior of the toys on Earth with their behavior in a microgravity environment. By dealing with scaled-down applications, middle school students will be able to grasp these laws and master the vocabulary of physics.

Along with the kit activities, the Newton's Toy Box Delta Science Reader (and complementary Skillbuilders booklet that helps students practice reading/grammar/writing/vocabulary skills with the content from the Delta Science Reader) will get students to delve even more into the basic physics of motion. They will find out how motion is described in terms of distance, direction, motion, speed, velocity, and acceleration. Students will also discover the effects of friction and gravity on objects and read about conservation of momentum. Newton’s laws of motion are explained and illustrated so that students can comprehend how and why objects move (or don’t). Furthermore, students will investigate the relationship among force, energy, power, and work, and then explore the devices that make work easier. Students will also: learn how the 6 simple machines provide a mechanical advantage (such as multiplying input force) and how the efficiency of simple and compound machines is calculated; be introduced to Sir Isaac Newton in a biographical sketch; and lastly, read about satellite motion (which is how satellites are placed in orbit and how they stay there).

Delta Science Modules Edition 3 (DSM-3) consist of a total of 59 assorted kits ranging from Grade K to 8 levels, each with a step-by-step teacher guide, student readers, 12-14 interconnected activities, and enough equipment to serve up to 32 students. Select kits also contain a pre-paid coupon for Living materials. Educators have the flexibility to have students follow the detailed activities that are provided, or customize their own curriculum plan with the equipment provided.