Revision as of 06:17, 1 July 2008

Outcomes

• Pupils should be able to give examples for, label and name a range of forces including Frictional Forces, Gravitational Force (Weight/gravitational pull), Tension Force, Electrical Force (elecrtostatic attraction/repulsion), Normal Force (Reaction), Magnetic Force, Air Resistance Force (drag), Applied Force (push/pull) and Spring Force.

Specification References

• 1.7 Express a force as a push or a pull of one body on another
• 1.8 Identify various types of force (e.g. gravitational, electrostatic etc)

Starter

Main Body of Lesson

• Forces Circus

Plenary

• Discuss the stations as a class

Homework

• Homework sheet on Forces- Label the types of forces acting in each picture

Additional Information

Resources Required

• Electrical Force - balloons for electrostatics, rice in a plastic bottle charging polythene rods and using watch glass show repulsion
• Frictional- slope with different objects (car, glass block and wooden block) where they change and measure the angle + hovercraft
• Magnetic - 2x bar magnets, iron filing in a boiling tube, horse shoe magnets attached to two vehicles with ability to reverse them.
• Upthrust - pieces of wood in water, different sized paper boat with paper clips to add, transparent water bath
• Strain/Spring force- spring and masses, rubber bands, squashy ball
• Gravitational – different masses on a Newton Scale, planetry model
• Applied Force – Push or Pull and Thrust – pulling brick with Newton meter, stones on a tray and water jug, stream of peas to drop onto a balance, balloon with a small tube and placed over a large retort stand + balloon pump
• Air resistance force/drag– ball bearing dropping through oil, model of dolphin, dropping ball and feather
• Tension Force- ball and string, tyrolean traverse with barbie attached
• Normal Force- block and strong card

Textbook References

• None

Website References

• None

Skills Addressed

• Observation

Safety/Hazards

• None

Notes

• None