Electricity and Magnetism

The purpose of this activity is to get children thinking and talking about where, and on what, forces might act in some...

Classroom Activity 5-11 11-14

The purpose of this activity is to help children to identify forces and give them a language to describe forces. Exploring...

Classroom Activity 5-11 11-14

The purpose of this activity is for children to make simplified drawings of each of the stations in the circus and to draw in...

Classroom Activity 5-11 11-14

This lifting slippery objects activity helps children describe the world by: recognising that grip forces are essential to...

Classroom Activity 5-11

To help children describe the world by acquiring a feeling for what a one newton slip force feels like. EndList

Classroom Activity 5-11

A floor seems to just be. How such a passive object can provide an upward force is indeed a puzzle.

Teaching Guidance 5-11 11-14

This misconception appears in two forms. The first holds that friction happens only when things move (slipping). This idea is...

Teaching Guidance 5-11 11-14

For many learners air is seen as nothing. Comparing the mass of air in a small domestic room to the mass of a child might help...

Teaching Guidance 5-11 11-14

In this episode we look at a group of forces–magnetic, electric and gravitational–which are different in kind from the pushes...

Physics Narrative 5-11 11-14

You can demonstrate the effect of an electric force by first rubbing a pair of party balloons on your jumper, then separating...

Physics Narrative 5-11 11-14

Pupils' everyday experiences of magnets are likely to focus on situations where the force of attraction is important: For...

Teaching Guidance 5-11 11-14

The problem here is that pupils confuse the charge story of electric forces with the pole story of magnetic forces. This is...

Teaching Guidance 5-11 11-14