Resources
This item is one of over 25,000 physical resources available from the Resources Collection. The Archive Collection covers over 50 years of curriculum development in the STEM subjects. The Contemporary Collection includes all the latest publications from UK educational publishers.
The Forces Sub-Collection is made up of pedagogical guidance and classroom materials for use with students. All materials were published by the Key Stage Three Strategy and the Secondary Strategy between 2002 and 2008.
...The resources in this collection support the teaching of the following key concepts in the topic of forces:
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What forces do
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Describing forces
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Balanced and unbalanced forces
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Friction
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Energy stores and transfers
Forces
This Nuffield Pathways Through Science module explored forces and motion to include collisions and explosions explained in terms of momentum. In the section about space the treatment covered circular motion as well as kinetic and potential energy. Activities in the...
Forces
This film follows Dr Simon Foster, from Imperial College, as he discusses the topic of forces in various contexts. Working with a class they design and make water rockets thinking about the forces needed to make them fly and how to protect the contents of the rockets when they land.
This film provides an...
This item is one of over 25,000 physical resources available from the Resources Collection. The Archive Collection covers over 50 years of curriculum development in the STEM subjects. The Contemporary Collection includes all the latest publications from UK educational publishers.
Forces - Mass, Weight and Gravity
In this resource from Teachers TV, Year Six teacher Zoe Lowe teaches a lesson on the difficult concepts of mass, weight and gravity. She uses balls to represent the Earth and Moon, and a soft toy, Astrobear, to visually show and aid understanding of the concept of gravity. Through a paired talk exercise, the...
Forces - Pushes, Pulls and Friction
From Teachers TV, this video is part of the Lesson Starters series. It contains five short video clips that can be used to generate interest and class discussion on forces, movement, pushes, pulls and friction.
The short clips illustrate: • The pushing and pulling forces exerted on a canoeing trip •...
Forces - Rocket Launch
This starter clip from Teachers TV demonstrates how much air pressure is needed to move objects of varying size. Scientist Dr Mark Biddiss constructs a makeshift launch pad, watched by children from Orion Primary School in north London. The air volumes are changed to project small, medium-sized and large bottles...
Forces 11-14
From the Institute of Physics, this resource provides extensive teacher guidance and suggested classroom activities to support the teaching of: * Forces - a way of looking at the world * Contact forces * Non-contact forces Each topic is explored from the following perspectives: • The physics narrative explains the...