This lesson aligns with the Common Core State Standards: "STANDARD 6 - Force and Motion The competent science teacher understands and applies the concepts that describe force and motion and the principles that explain them. 6A. understands the concepts and interrelationships of position, time, velocity, and acceleration. 6E. describes and predicts motions of bodies in inertial and accelerated frames of reference and in one and two dimensions in a physical system with association to the basic th