Learning goals:

• Represent and interpret data on a line graph.
• Compare/contrast how different types of springs behave.
• Describe how a push or pull of a spring affects its motion and position over time.
• Identify and describe other examples that oscillate in a similar fashion as a spring.

Student Challenge:

• Design a spring that behaves differently than the examples. Tell the story of how the spring's motion changes over time.

Curricular Connections:

• An object's motion can be described by tracing and measuring its position over time.
• The position and motion of objects can be changed by pushing or pulling. The size of the change is related to the strength of the push or pull.