A. Overall goals (modified from National Science Education Standards)
    1. Exercise abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry
    2. Design and conduct scientific investigations
    3. Create models to help formulate scientific principles
    4. Consider alternative explanations for scientific phenomena
    5. Communicate with peers using scientific vocabulary

B. Specific objectives (modified from North Carolina Course of Study)
    1. Assess the vector nature of momentum and its relation to the mass and velocity of an object (6.01)
    2. Compare and contrast impulse and momentum (6.02)
    3. Examine what must occur to produce a change in momentum (6.03)
    4. Recognize and evaluate the idea of conservation of momentum (6.04, 6.05)
    5. Assess the vector nature of work and its relation to force and distance (2.01)
    6. Analyze power and its relation to work and time
    7. Demonstrate and use knowledge of potential and kinetic energy (5.01, 5.02)
    8. Recognize and evaluate the idea of the conservation of mechanical energy (5.03)
    9. Judge the ability of the conservation of energy to be applied to everyday situations (5.03)
    10. Create a scientific procedure that evaluates the law of conservation of mechanical energy (5.03)
    11. Describe and demonstrate the transfer of mechanical energy through work (5.04)
 

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