Conflicting+Forces



Students will look at how conflicting forces- attraction and repulsion- shape our world. They will investigate how magnetism is a force that may attract or repel certain materials, electricity transfers energy through various kinds of circuits that can conduct and insulate, and electricity and magnetism interact with each other. This series of conflicting forces is mirrored in the relationship between the US and England from the Colonial Period leading up to the Revolutionary War. Students will see the attraction (dependence) and how it changes to repulsion and desire for and finally won-freedom (independence). As the new nation develops they will discover that this trend continues even within this new society as some groups are included while others are excluded. Students will also look at poetry and how poets use conflicting emotions to inspire them-writing about what attracts & repulses them. They will see how numbers are attracted through multiplication and repulsed through division.