Forces between objects, contact and non-contact forces and force fields. Complete lesson.

A complete, and ready to deliver, KS4

For USA - this lesson is for use between 8th to 10th grade.

Lesson objectives:
* Describe the difference between contact forces & non-contact forces.
* State examples of non-contact forces and relate them to real life scenarios.
* Describe what a force field is and what affects it.
* Understand how the strength of force is represented and how it changes with distance.

This carefully crafted lesson is over 30 slides long, and is full of learning activities as below:
* Notes to help the teacher.
* Starter - simple task where students self-assess against the objectives.
* Activity sheet (unique) - differentiated HA and LA and all answers are in the powerpoint.
* Practical / student experiment.
* Sorting activity
* Gap fill activity on the activity sheet - all answers are provided.
* Quiz with answers.
* Questions – all answers are provided.
* Peer marking / Self marking opportunities
* Theory slides (carefully sculpted, interspaced with learning activities, not ‘death by powerpoint’).
* Play ball.
* Paired work activities – all answers are provided.
* Homework
* Scientific Literacy activity.
* Student self-assessment versus objectives activity – so learners can judge for themselves how much they have learnt.
* Extension activities - only for use if required.

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This lesson is part of a series, whilst they all work very well as standalone individual lessons you may wish to buy others from the series:
0. Bundles – contain 3 or more of these lessons at a discounted price (however please note not all my series are bundled).
1. Vectors and scalars.
2. Forces between objects, contact and non-contact forces.
3. Forces and Newton’s third law (N3L).
4 to 12 - please see list in this powerpoint

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Yours,
Barclayfox.