Year-7 Physics Forces: Balancing Forces
In this Year-7 Physics Forces: Balancing Forces lesson, students will understand the difference between balanced and unbalanced forces, identify a state of equilibrium and explain why unbalanced forces can change the speed or direction of an object’s motion.
The slides include extension questions, and students can choose from a variety of different tasks.
This lesson includes:
- Title slide with learning objectives
- A starter activity
- Group reading (literacy)
- Keywords task (vocabulary: equilibrium, unbalanced forces, driving force, resistive force and motion)
- Task boxes
- Comprehension task
- Numeracy task
- True or false discussion exercise
- Answer slides included for self-assessment
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