Forces and braking, cars. Thinking distance, braking distance, stopping distance. Complete Lesson

A complete, and ready to deliver, high quality KS4 / GCSE lesson.

(USA grades 9, 10 and 11)

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Lesson objectives:
* Know the forces that oppose the driving force of a vehicle.
* Define thinking distance, braking distance and stopping distance.
* Describe factors affecting thinking distance and braking distance.
* Understand why doubling speed doubles thinking distance but more than doubles braking distance.
* Use the braking distance equation successfully.

This carefully crafted lesson is over 40 slides long, and is full of learning activities as below:
* Notes to help the teacher.
* Starter - recall quiz.
* Starter - simple task where students self-assess against the objectives.
* Practical experiment.
* Peer marking
* Self marking
* Theory slides (carefully sculpted, interspaced with learning activities, not ‘death by powerpoint’).
* Questions – all answers are provided.
* Differentiated questions - all answers are provided.
* Play ball.
* Video clip link (carefully selected – this alone can save you 20+ minutes of searching).
* Paired work activities – all answers are provided.
* Scientific Literacy activity.
* Scientific Numeracy activity
* SMSC
* Plenary formative/summative assessment questions.
* Student self-assessment versus objectives activity – so learners can judge for themselves how much they have learnt.

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