Forces and Motion

There are opportunities here for using datalogging equipment and light gates to record and analyse motion, so it would be...

Teaching Guidance 16-19

It will be useful in this topic if you can draw and/or project force diagrams, so the whole class can see them, showing forces...

Teaching Guidance 16-19

Demonstration: Force applied to a load can produce "balanced" and "unbalanced" force scenarios.

Practical Activity 14-16

Demonstration: This is an interesting way to show some balanced and unbalanced forces and the effects on motion.

Practical Activity 14-16

Class practical: We exert force by contraction, in length, of muscles.

Practical Activity 14-16

Class practical: Working with a range of materials provides opportunity for observation and discussion of the effects of...

Practical Activity 14-16

Physicists aim to understand, and sometimes to predict, physical interactions. They use two abstract concepts a lot: force and...

Teaching Guidance 14-16

The purpose of this activity is to get pupils thinking and talking about forces.

Diagnostic Questions 11-14

This activity allows pupils to investigate some more complex real life situations and to consider the forces acting, by...

Classroom Activity 11-14

The purpose of this activity is to get pupils thinking and talking about forces. The question focuses on thinking about the...

Classroom Activity 11-14

This is a variation on the extending a spring experiment. Here the measurements are of compression and the support sheet...

Classroom Activity 11-14

In this activity pupils measure how the load the punt supports first hand experience of an buoyancy force and to encourage...

Classroom Activity 11-14