Students will encounter puzzling force and magnet phenomena in playground-style setups, generate authentic wonderings, and refine them into focused, investigable research questions with clear hypotheses that will guide their force and motion investigations.

Students will design a clear, testable investigation plan to answer their forces or magnet research question by identifying variables, selecting an appropriate method, planning systematic data collection, and revising their methodology through peer feedback before beginning data collection.

Students will systematically collect and document high-quality data for their forces and magnet investigations, carefully recording conditions, measurements, and anomalies so their evidence can support strong analysis in the next phase.

Students will transform their collected force and magnet data into meaningful evidence by creating visualizations, identifying patterns and anomalies, debating interpretations, and drafting preliminary findings that directly address their original research questions about pushes, pulls, balanced forces, and magnetic interactions.

Students will draw evidence-based conclusions from their forces and magnet investigations, explicitly acknowledge limitations, generate new investigable questions, and present their Ultimate Playground findings to an authentic audience of peers and invited guests.