To fully understand and support your students’ needs during a LEGO^® Education BricQ Motion Prime lesson, we encourage you to explore and work hands-on from a student’s perspective.

In the Gymnast lesson, student pairs build a gymnast-powered car and learn how it moves. In this lesson, your students will:

• Explore the motion of a "gymnast" (i.e., pendulum) on wheels and
  explain how it demonstrates Newton’s three laws of motion
• Predict how the forces acting on an object can change its motion

Standards Mapping

• Next Generation Science Standards

  • MS-PS2-2 2: Plan an investigation to provide evidence that the change in an object’s motion depends on the sum of the forces on the object and the mass of the object.

• International Society for Technology in Education

  • 4c: Develop & test prototypes
  • 6c: Clear & effective communication
  • 7c: Contribute constructively to project teams

• Common Core

  • ELA-LITERACY.SL6.1: Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 6 topics, texts, and issues, building on others' ideas and expressing their own clearly.