LEGO^® Education strongly believes that students learn best through play—by actively doing, exploring, and experimenting. This approach empowers them to become creative and engaged life-long learners, which is essential for success in their future careers and lives.

In the Free Throw lesson, student pairs explore the motion of a basketball when scoring a three-point throw.. In this lesson, your students will:

• Observe and measure an object’s motion to recognize a pattern
• Record data and use it to make predictions

Standards Mapping

• Next Generation Science Standards
  • 3-PS2-2 Make observations and/or measurements of an object’s motion to provide evidence that a pattern can be used to predict future motion.
• International Society for Technology in Education
  • 4c Develop & test prototypes
  • 7c Contribute constructively to project teams
• Common Core
  • ELA-LITERACY.SL.1 Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about grade 1 topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups.