Lesson Summary

Holly and Buddy performed an amazing magic show at The Society of Magicians. At the end of the story, Holly says “Do you think we could come up with another grand illusion?”  Your challenge is to create, perform, and explain magic tricks based on physical science concepts that Holly and Buddy could use in their next show.

ELA Standards:

7.SL.5. Include multimedia components and visual displays in presentations to clarify claims and findings and emphasize salient points.

STE or Math Standards:

7.MS-PS3-2. Develop a model to describe the relationship between the relative positions of objects interacting at a distance and their relative potential energy in the system. 

Clarification Statements: 

• Examples of objects within systems interacting at varying distances could include Earth and either a roller coaster cart at varying positions on a hill or objects at varying heights on shelves, changing the direction/orientation of a magnet, and a balloon with static electrical charge being brought closer to a stream of water.
• Examples of models could include representations, diagrams, pictures, and written descriptions of systems.

Computer Science (DLCS) Standards:

6-8.DTC.b 1. Communicate and publish key ideas and details individually or collaboratively in a way that informs, persuades, and/or entertains using a variety of digital tools and media-rich resources.

6-8.DTC.b 2. Collaborate synchronously and asynchronously through online digital tools.

Video

The Magician read by author Sherri Maret