Newton's First Law
Forces and Motion
Thinking about actions to take: Predicting Constant Speed
Teaching Guidance
for 11-14
There's a good chance you could improve your teaching if you were to:
Try these
- making stronger and continuous links to work on forces
- emphasising the counter-intuitive nature of Newtonian
natural
motion
Teacher Tip: Work through the Physics Narrative to find these lines of thinking worked out and then look in the Teaching Approaches for some examples of activities.
Avoid these
- drawing similar arrows for those representing forces and those representing movement
- speaking of balanced forces—prefer
the resultant force is equal to 0
Teacher Tip: These difficulties are distilled from: the research findings; the practice of well-connected teachers with expertise; issues intrinsic to representing the physics well.
