Forces and Motion

This is a focussing activity, that shows the wide variety of things that fall in the children's everyday environment, and...

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The purpose of this activity is to begin to ascribe changes in a fall to the forces acting on the object. The forces are...

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Children often have a very local understanding of the word down . In this simple and short activity we invite them to consider...

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Here you can explore how the idea of down varies as you move from one planet to another, from one planetary system to another...

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The idea here is a bit subtle: we are working with the ideas that falling is simply a kind of motion, and that all motions are...

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Same speed: changing speed. Here we revisit the walk-throughs of falling, with a careful emphasis on noticing the changing...

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This is a compare and contrast activity. Compare the fall of the seeds that have evolved to fall slowly with those that have...

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Here you are going to extend the description of motion that you have evolved for falling to things that rise. SO this is...

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Here we start to look at forces that can oppose the gravity force and so prevent falling. This is a very simple quick...

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There you can see the universality of gravity: there will be force arrows on all falling objects.

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Here you can make the point that an constrained free fall is similar to just floating along in a current (and perhaps to just...

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Do heavier objects fall faster? The purpose of this activity is to challenge the commonly held, but mistaken, idea that...

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