What You Will Learn
Strategies
You will be using many reading and writing strategies to complete this lesson. The key strategies that you will focus on are:
- Determining important information
- Constructing summaries
- Using text features
- Comparing and contrasting ideas
- Making inferences
Goals
Here are the big ideas you will learn about in this lesson:
- Things on or near Earth are pulled toward it by gravity.
- A force can cause changes in the speed or direction of an object.
- When more than one force acts on an object, how the object's motion changes depends on the strength and direction of the forces.
Vocabulary
Read these words and their definitions. When you see them in the lesson, you can click on them to read the definition again.