Learning goals:

• Represent and interpret data on a line graph.
• Compare/contrast how different types of springs behave based on specific characteristics.
• Match a spring's description to an accompanying graph.
• Identify and describe other examples that oscillate in a similar fashion as a spring.

Student Challenge:

• Create different types of springs that behave in different ways – largest change in position, fastest oscillation, slowest oscillation, etc.

Curricular Connections:

• Equilibrium is the physical state in which forces and changes occur in opposite and offsetting directions.
• The motion of an object can be described by its position, direction of motion, and speed. That motion can be measured and represented on a graph.