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Introduction
The
school principal just entered your classroom and announced, "All
school field trips must be canceled due to budget
cutbacks." After the moans and groans subsided, he
continued. "I know that you are really disappointed but, this
is a big problem for the students in third grade. They must take a
test over forces, motion and simple machines and their trip to the Physics
Museum was canceled. The third grade teachers have asked for your
help. They would like you to create an interactive museum full of
experiments about forces, motion, and machines in our school
cafeteria. The third grade students would tour the museum with you
as their guide. It is very important that the third graders learn as
much as possible about these topics so that they will score well on the
test. Their test has only one question, but it is a really hard question: How
do forces and motion affect the Earth and everything on it?"
"Will
you help our third graders do well on the test?"
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