Newton’s Laws of Motion Poster Project

Due: Tuesday, February 19th or 2oth, 2018

Sir Isaac Newton lived during the 1600s. Like all scientists, he
made observations about the world around him. Some of his
observations were about motion. His observations have been supported by more
data over time; and we now call these Newton’s Laws of Motion. His laws of
motion explain rest, constant motion, accelerated motion, and describe how
balanced and unbalanced forces act to cause these states of motion. Review the
three laws of motion:

➢ Newton's first law of motion says that an object in motion will stay in motion
and an object at rest will stay at rest unless acted on by an unbalanced force.
• An object will not change its motion unless a force acts on it. An object
that is not moving remains at rest until something pushes or pulls it.
• An object that is moving remains moving until something pushes or
pulls it.
• All objects resist having their motion changed.
• This tendency to resist a change in motion is called inertia.
• The more mass an object has, the greater its inertia.

➢ The second law of motion states that the force of an object is equal to its
mass times its acceleration.
• A change in motion occurs only if a net force is exerted on an object.
• A net force changes the velocity of the object, and causes it to
accelerate.
• If an object is acted upon by a net force, the change in velocity will be
in the direction of the net force.
• The acceleration of an object depends on its mass.
• The more mass an object has or the more inertia it has, the harder it is
to accelerate.
• More mass means less acceleration if the force acting on the objects is
the same.

➢ Newton's third law of motion states that for every action there is an equal and
opposite reaction.
• When one object exerts a force on a second object, the second object
exerts an equal force in the opposite direction on the first object.
• The force exerted by the first object is the action force.
• The force exerted by the second object is the reaction force.
Assignment: Create a poster that illustrates an example of each of
the three laws of motion.
1. Create one illustration for each of Newton’s three laws of motion. You may
use your own photos, draw illustrations, images from magazines, or
images from the Internet (be sure to cite the source of copy write images).
2. Write a narrative explanation of how the illustration demonstrates or
describes the law of motion for each illustration. The narrative should be in
complete sentences. The explanation should be matted and mounted next
to the illustration.
3. Make sure your illustrations are colorful and neat. Pictures should be
matted or outlined in an attractive way.
4. Include headings to identify which law of motion is being demonstrated.
Headings should be attractive, colorful, and easily read.
5. Use one poster board (28” x 22”) to display a Title, three headings, three
matted pictures or illustrations, and three matted narrative explanations.
6. Heading with Name, class, and date on the back of the poster.

Your illustration will be graded using the following rubric, and recorded as a test.

20 18 16 14 12 10
Laws of Excellent All three of All three of Two of One of Attempt at
examples of Newton’s laws Newton’s laws Newton’s laws Newton’s laws identifying
Motion
all three of of motion are of motion are of motion are of motion are Newton’s laws
Newton’s laws correctly illustrated and illustrated or illustrated or of motion is
of motion are illustrated and described. described. described. made.
clearly and described.
correctly
illustrated and
described.
Graphics 3 or more 3 clear, color 3 images that 3 images are Less than 3 Some
clear, color images that show used but are graphics that graphics are
images that show movement are unclear or not show attempted.
show movement are used but are used correctly. movement are
movement are used correctly. unclear or not attempted.
used correctly. used correctly.
Title/ Creative title Title and Title and Title and Missing title or Some forms of
and headings headings that headings can headings are a heading. title or
Headings
that neatly are neatly be easily read present but headings are
formed can be formed can be from 2 meters are sloppy or attempted.
easily read easily read away. not easily read
from 3 meters from 3 meters from a
away. away. distance.
Explanation Excellent Well written Well written Narrative with Unclear Some
narrative with narrative with narrative with 3 or 4 obvious narrative or explanation is
no obvious no obvious 1 or 2 obvious grammatical more than 4 attempted.
grammatical grammatical grammatical mistakes. obvious
mistakes. mistakes. mistakes. grammatical
mistakes.
Appearance High quality, Attractive and Colorful Presentation Presentation Appearance is
colorful, and colorful presentation. has attempt at has limited unattractive,
attractive presentation. Matting is using matting. use of color or sloppy, and
presentation. Matting is used Obvious is missing shows little
Matting is used throughout. erasure marks matting. effort
used throughout. Some erasure or use of white Excessive
throughout. No white-out marks or use out. erasures or
No white-out or obvious of white out. use of white
or obvious erasure out.
erasure marks.
marks.