Forces, Motion, and Energy: The Grand Ballet of the Universe

Welcome! As future elementary educators, you have the magnificent task of looking at a child who just dropped a book, or slid across a wooden floor in their socks, and explaining to them the hidden rules of the universe. To do that, we aren’t just going to memorize vocabulary. We are going to look under the hood of reality.

Why do things move? Why do they stop? Why does a roller coaster need a giant hill to start, and why does an astronaut bounce on the Moon?

Let’s strip away the complicated jargon and look at the beautiful, intuitive mechanics of nature. By the time we’re done, you’ll have a profound grasp of forces, motion, energy, mass, and weight—and you’ll be perfectly equipped to crush this section of the Praxis exam.

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