MS: NGSS - Forces Curriculum Bundle: 3 NGSS Units + 11 Additional Labs

Forces Curriculum Bundle: 3 NGSS Units + 11 Additional Labs | Forces & Motion, Invisible Forces, Gravity | Grades 6–8

Teach your whole forces sequence with one purchase. This bundle includes three complete NextWave Science units, all ten companion labs, and a bonus CER practice. That's 32 lessons, 10 hands-on labs, and 3 end-of-unit assessments, all aligned to NGSS and ready to teach. Save almost 10% compared with buying each resource separately.

What's Included

• Unit 1: Forces & Motion: Investigating Interactions and Collisions (15 lessons)

Students investigate pushes and pulls, balanced and unbalanced forces, and all three of Newton's Laws. They analyze and graph their own data, then finish by engineering a safer collision and defending it with a CER.

NGSS: MS-PS2-1, MS-PS2-2, MS-ETS1-1, MS-ETS1-3, MS-ETS1-4

• Forces & Motion Labs (4 labs)
• Tablecloth Pull Challenge: inertia and Newton's First Law
• Rubber Band Launch: force, mass, and Newton's Second Law
• Balloon Hover Disc: action–reaction forces and Newton's Third Law
• Sliding Surface Lab: friction and motion

⭐ Bonus: Forces & Motion CER Practice

• Unit 2: Invisible Forces: Electricity, Magnetism & Fields (11 lessons)

Students reveal magnetic fields with iron filings and compasses, explore static electricity, build electromagnets, and design their own investigations. They finish by engineering the strongest electromagnet they can.

NGSS: MS-PS2-3, MS-PS2-5, MS-ETS1-4

• Invisible Forces Labs (3 labs)
• Static Electricity Distance Lab: how distance and charge affect electric force
• Magnetic Shielding Lab: which materials block a magnetic field
• Electromagnet Core Lab: how the core material affects electromagnet strength

⭐ Bonus: Invisible Forces CER Practice

Four data-rich scenarios with a standard version, a modified version, and answer keys for both.

• Unit 3: Gravity & Gravitational Interactions (6 lessons)

Students measure Earth's pull with spring scales and discover that objects pull on each other equally. They analyze orbits, tides, and NASA planet data, write evidence-based arguments, and engineer a stable tower or a safe lander.

NGSS: MS-PS2-4, MS-ESS1-2, MS-ETS1-1 to 4

• Gravity Labs (3 labs)
• Center of Mass Challenge: what makes things tip over
• Crater Collision Investigation: how mass and drop height affect craters
• Gravity and Distance Lab: an orbit model plus NASA data

Every Unit Includes

• A Read Me First guide with pacing and a full materials list
• A Teacher Guide: each lesson has a timed flow, "Listen for" and "Watch for" notes, a differentiation menu, and an exit ticket
• Student Notes for every lesson
• Exit tickets, printed 3 per page
• An end-of-unit assessment
• Answer keys for the notes, exit tickets, and assessment
• Printable station cards
• Engineering and CER rubrics

Every Lab Includes

• A 4-page Teacher Guide with NGSS alignment
• A Student Lab Sheet with a fair-test plan, data tables, analysis, a CER, and an Honors Extension
• An Answer Key with sample data and CER examples at three levels

Differentiation Built In, Everywhere

Every lesson and lab includes options for:

• ELL / multilingual learners
• Neurodivergent learners
• Advanced / gifted & honors students

Each teacher guide also explains how to differentiate while keeping every student on the same standards.

NGSS Coverage

• MS-PS2-1 through MS-PS2-5: the complete middle school Forces and Interactions set
• MS-ESS1-2: gravity in the solar system
• MS-PS3-1: kinetic energy, through the Crater Collision Investigation
• MS-ETS1-1 to 4: engineering design challenges in all three units

Pacing

• 65-minute periods: about 35 class days for the three units, including assessment days. Add up to 10 lab days.
• 45-minute periods: about 50 class days for the three units, plus the labs.
• Each unit also works as a stand-alone, so you can teach them in any order.

Why Buy the Bundle?

• Save almost 10% over buying the units and labs separately
• One consistent format across every unit and lab, so students learn the routines once
• A complete story of forces: from pushes and pulls, to forces that act without touching, to the gravity that holds the solar system together

Terms of Use: This purchase is a single-user license for use in your own classroom. Please purchase additional licenses for colleagues.