This bundle is a complete topic pack containing all powerpoints, student worksheets, challenge tasks, plenary activities, and answer sheets for the KS3 Physics topic “Forces”. It also contains many specially selected student-led activities on the powerpoints (particularly designed to make teaching the concepts of forces, fields, resultant forces, and weight, easier, more fun and student-led).
There are also self-completing slides where answers can be clicked and move into the correct place (great for distance learning students and cover lessons).
This bundle contains the following lessons:
Forces
Drawing Force Diagrams
Hooke’s Law
Drag and Friction
Fields
Calculating Weight
Balanced and Unbalanced Forces
Lesson objectives/outcomes:
Lesson 1 – Forces
Students should be able to:
• Explain what forces are
• Compare different types of forces
• Describe how to measure forces and give the unit of force
Lesson 2 – Drawing Force Diagrams
Students should be able to:
• Describe how forces are represented
• Identify the direction a force acts on an object
• Draw and/or label force arrows on diagrams for simple example
Lesson 3 – Hooke’s Law
Students should be able to:
• Describe how forces deform objects
• Describe how solid surfaces provide a support force
• Investigate and use Hooke’s Law
• Take accurate measurements
• Plot a graph
• Draw a line of best fit on a graph
Lesson 4 – Drag and Friction
Students should be able to:
• Describe the effect of drag forces and friction
• Explain how drag forces and friction arise
• Describe how drag forces and friction can be reduced
• Measure force using a newton meter
• Record data in an appropriate table
• use my observations to make a conclusion
Lesson 5 – Fields
Students should be able to:
• Describe what a “field” is
• Describe the effects of fields
Lesson 6 – Calculating Weight
Students should be able to:
• Describe the difference between weight and mass
• Calculate the weight of an object
• Explain why weight is different on different planets
• Convert units
• Calculate values using a calculator
Lesson 7 – Balanced and Unbalanced Forces
Students should be able to:
• Describe the difference between balanced and unbalanced forces
• Explain why objects are in equilibrium
• Explain the changing motion of objects
• Calculate resultant forces in one dimension
A short, engaging lesson (ideal to complete before a mid-topic summary) designed with non-science/non-physics specialist teachers in mind!
This lesson teaches students about what a field is and how forces are felt within fields for different non-contact forces (especially gravitational fields and magnetic fields).
This resource contains:
Lesson powerpoint - including full answers, mini-practical with instructions for students
Lesson resources contain:
In-built challenge tasks throughout
A mini “discovery” style practical
Objectives:
Students will be able to…
Describe what a “field” is
Describe the effects of fields
Resources and slides ask students the key questions and develops ideas and concepts from the ground up and address common issues, mistakes and misconceptions.
A comprehensive, engaging, challenging and interactive lesson package designed with non-science/non-physics specialist teachers in mind!
This lesson teaches students about the reaction force, how forces stretch or squash an object, and Hooke’s Law in relation to springs.
This resource contains:
Lesson powerpoint - including full answers and teacher notes; practical instructions, equipment list, and safety instructions, follow up questions
Student practical worksheet (PDF and editable version)
Student graph axis (PDF and editable version) - if you don’t want to print a whole worksheet
Objectives:
Students will be able to…
Describe how forces deform objects
Describe how solid surfaces provide a support force
Investigate and use Hooke’s Law
Students will work scientifically to:
Take accurate measurements
Plot a graph
Draw a line of best fit on a graph
A comprehensive, engaging, challenging and interactive lesson package designed with non-science/non-physics specialist teachers in mind!
This lesson teaches students the difference between weight and mass, and how to calculate weight using the “LESS” method.
This resource contains:
Lesson powerpoint - including, full answers, mini-whiteboard AFL, practice activities, full “I do, we do, you do” guided slides for calculations
Student practice worksheet (PDF and editable version)
Teacher answer sheet (PDF and editable version)
Lesson resources contain:
In-built challenge tasks throughout
In-built scaffolded learning for lower abilities
Various activites to assess progress and understanding that you can tailor to fit any class or available resources
Objectives:
Students will be able to…
Describe the difference between weight and mass
Calculate the weight of an object
Explain why weight is different on different planets
Students will work scientifically to:
Convert units
Calculate values using a calculator
Resources and slides ask students the key questions and develops ideas and concepts from the ground up and address common issues, mistakes and misconceptions.
This lesson contains AFL tasks which require mini-whiteboards, but can be adapted if these are not available.
A comprehensive, engaging, challenging and interactive lesson package designed with non-science/non-physics specialist teachers in mind!
This lesson covers drag and friction, the different places we get both and where they are useful and not useful, as well as a simple student practical to measure the effects of different surfaces on friction.
This lesson contains:
Lesson powerpoint - including teacher notes, full answers, interactive activities, student practical with follow-up questions, and plenary
Lesson resources contain:
In-built challenge tasks throughout
In-built scaffolded learning for lower abilities and EAL (including dual-coding)
Practical investigation of the effects of different surfaces on friction
Careers links
Objectives:
Students will be able to…
Describe the effect of drag forces and friction
Explain how drag forces and friction arise
Describe how drag forces and friction can be reduced
Students will be working scientifically to:
Measure force using a newton meter
Record data in an appropriate table
use my observations to make a conclusion
A comprehensive, engaging, challenging and interactive lesson package designed with non-science/non-physics specialist teachers in mind! This lesson covers what balanced and unbalanced forces are, how to calculate resultant forces in one dimension, and the effects balanced and unbalanced forces have on the motion of an object.
This resource contains:
Lesson powerpoint - including teacher notes, interactive AFL tasks, student written task, and full answers to all activities.
Lesson resources contain:
In-built challenge tasks throughout
In-built scaffolded learning for lower abilities
Various activites to assess progress and understanding that you can tailor to fit any class or available resources
Objectives:
Students will be able to…
Describe the difference between balanced and unbalanced forces
Explain why objects are in equilibrium
Explain the changing motion of objects
Calculating resultant forces in one dimension
This is a KS3 physics lesson covering how do draw and label basic force diagrams.
NOTE: this lesson doesn’t discuss size of force arrows, but focuses on drawing force arrows touching objects in the correct places and going in the correct direction.
This resource contains:
Teacher powerpoint (with teacher delivery notes, “I do, we do, you do” structured delivery task, plenary AFL quiz, and full work through answers animated into each slide)
Student worksheet (PDF and editable versions)
Student worksheet answers (PDF and editable versions)
Lesson objectives:
Describe how forces are represented
Identify the direction a force acts on an object
Draw and/or label force arrows on diagrams for simple example
This is a KS3 physics lesson covering what forces are, common forces and identifying them in simple examples, contact vs non-contact forces, and how to measure forces.
This resource contains:
Teacher powerpoint (with teacher delivery notes, practical investigation, mini-whiteboard afl quizzes, and challenge tasks throughout)
Matching forces and descriptions worksheet (PDF and editable versions)
**Lesson objectives: **
Explain what forces are
Compare different types of forces
Describe how to measure forces and give the unit of force
This lesson covers what longitudinal and transverse waves are, the features of both kinds of waves, examples of these waves and what happens when waves meet barriers or each other. This is a perfect introduction lesson to KS3 topic on sound and waves.
This Lesson Contains:
Lesson powerpoint, including instructions for key demonstrations of both types of waves, full answers, plenary tasks, AFL whiteboard and discussion activities
Student worksheet (PDF and editable version)
Student worksheet answers sheet (PDF and editable version)
Lesson Objectives
Name the two different types of waves and label their features
Give an example of each kind of wave
Describe what happens when waves hit a barrier
Describe what happens when waves superimpose