A New Activity

Emmanuel Charruau echarruau at gmail.com
Tue Aug 1 10:06:06 UTC 2017


Hi,
Does it not looks like too much like our balance activity?
Regards,
Emmanuel

Le 1 août 2017 11:38, "Amit Sagtani" <asagtani06 at gmail.com> a écrit :

>
> Hi everyone,
>
>
> I’d like to create a new educational activity related to Forces and Motion.
>
>
> *Scenario*: The child is provided with a massive box with a rope attached
> on two opposite sides and two teams(Konqui and Tux) players of different
> masses. Child can put players of a team on a side of box and others team
> players on the other side, both team starts pulling the box towards
> themselves and one with higher force wins the game. The child can
> experiment with different forces and predict the motion of the box.
>
>
> *Key Concepts:* Motion, Force, Net force, Sum of forces, Push, Pull, Mass
>
> *Subject:* Physics
>
>
> *Level: *High School, K-5, Middle School
> Learning Goals
>
>    -
>
>    Identify when forces are balanced vs unbalanced.
>    -
>
>    Determine the sum of forces (net force) on an object with more than
>    one force on it.
>    -
>
>    Predict the direction of motion given a combination of forces.
>
> I’d be happy to receive feedbacks on the activity and new ideas to make
> this activity more interesting.
>
>
> Reference -- https://phet.colorado.edu/sims/html/forces-and-motion-
> basics/latest/forces-and-motion-basics_en.html
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Amit Sagtani
>
>
>
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