NGSS Task Cards - Force & Motion - 3rd Grade

When I asked another teacher, "What would be a good science product to create for elementary teachers?" her immediate response was a confident, "Task cards!"  I pretended like I knew what she was talking about, since I didn't want to seem the ignorant science teacher, but at home I began a frantic search of the World Wide Web to see what, indeed, these mysterious task cards might be.

It didn't take long for me to discover that they are fairly simple, and MEGA AWESOME.  Like flashcards on some performance-enhancing drug, task cards can be used for nearly a million purposes!  Warm-ups, "scoot" game, time-fillers, review cards, extra credit...there are so many possibilities!  How had I never heard of these before?  Was I living in an educational cave somewhere?

So I quickly began working on some cards, and here is the first set.  I wanted them to be a combination of quick questions and long ones, multiple choice and open-ended, so I finally decided to make the odd numbers multiple choice, and the even numbers writing/drawing questions.  For Force & Motion, having a combination of two different styles was perfect.  Students can answer multiple-choice questions such as, "Two students push on a box from opposite sides and it doesn't move.  This is an example of ________________," and they can also wrestle with such open-ended questions as, "Write 2-3 sentences describing how to move a book off a table without touching it."

Though I'm embarrassed it took so long to create a set of task cards, I can't say I'm not proud. :)

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