The resources in this collection support the teaching of the following key concepts in the topic of forces:

• What forces do

• Describing forces

• Balanced and unbalanced forces

• Friction

• Energy stores and transfers

This simulation allows students to explore the forces at work when pulling against a cart, and pushing a refrigerator, crate, or person. Create an applied force and see how it makes objects move. Change friction and see how it affects the motion of objects.

Learning outcomes include:

*Identify whether...

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.

These diagnostic questions and response activities (contained in the zip file) support students in being able to:

• Calculate the size and direction of the resultant force of two forces acting along the same straight line
• Describe how quickly the speed of an object can be changed if acted on by...

These diagnostic questions and response activities (contained in the zip file) support students in being able to:

• Read values of distance or time off the axes of a distance-time graph for a plotted point
• Describe the changes to an object represented by a move from one point on a distance-time...

These diagnostic questions and response activities (contained in the zip file) support students in being able to:

• Describe how forces always arise in pairs

• Label force arrows to describe the action of the force

• Represent the size and direction of a force with an...

These diagnostic questions and response activities (contained in the zip file) support students in being able to:

• Describe how a person’s hand uses force to support different sized weights.         
• Describe how the size of force exerted by a spring changes as it is squashed.       
• ...

There are a total of five turbine engines on the Gravity Jet Suit.  This resources uses the suit to look at resolving forces and free body diagrams.

• Using tried and tested ‘Cloud’ based software that simulates the setting up of a racing car, students, working in small teams, complete a series of STEM relevant tasks in an effort to produce the perfect car. This ‘virtual’ car is then entered into a competitive race in the hope of...

From the Institute of Physics, this resource provides extensive teacher guidance and suggested classroom activities to support the teaching of:

* Speed
* Resultant force zero predicts constant speed
* Resultant non-zero - changes in speed

Each topic is explored from the following...

This sub-collection of materials from the dy/dan collection contains three resources that bring mathematical storytelling to the classroom in the context of ‘speed, acceleration, and motion’. Resources comprise:

• Act One: a video or photograph to provide a ‘hook’ to the problem

• Act...

These diagnostic questions and response activities (contained in the zip file) support students in being able to:

• Identify pairs of forces that are balanced or unbalanced.

• Calculate the size and direction of the resultant force of two forces acting along the same straight line....

In this programme, from Teachers TV, David Richardson from the Institute of Physics demonstrate his physics experiments on...