Balanced & Unbalanced Forces and Resultant Force
<p>The main resources is a Power Point presentation that I prepared for a low ability group, which clearly explains the concepts of balanced force, unbalanced force and resultant force (Newton’s first and second laws of motion).<br />
The Power Point is good as a starter, plenary or a recap.<br />
I used it as a recap at the start of a lesson, midway thorough teaching the Forces topic.</p>
<p>For the main lesson activity, the kids had to produce their own similar powerpoint slide, using further examples of balanced / unbalanced forces, and then present their slide to the rest of the class at the end of the lesson. (This is what the presentation document relates to). Differentiation was by extra teacher / TA input for the less able and the more able were given more complicated motion to describe in their Power Point slide.</p>
<p>The previous lesson, the class had used the Forces Simulator. The instructions I gave the class are on the Simulator Document,</p>
<p>Hope this is helpful - PLEASE leave feedback ;)<br />
Thank you.</p>