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Online Friction and Forces Exploration Lesson

Objectives: Understand that friction, including air resistance, is a force that slows moving objects. Explain conclusions in terms of roughness or smoothness of surfaces. Relate results to predictions.
1. Go to http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/index_flash.shtml 2. Choose ages 8-9 first (even though this is not your age) 3. Choose the Friction activity 4. Follow the directions on screen and complete the table below. Click blue arrow to go to next. Click RESET to place the car back. Make the activity full screen.

Material/substance of track
Vinyl Wood Carpet Ice 5. Answer the following questions:

Yellow light

Red light

Why do you think, with the same push, the sleigh travels different distances on different substances?____________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ With what surface and with what kind of push must you use to get the sleigh to travel past the last flag and off the screen? ______________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________

6. When finished and this activity is completed, Take the Quiz. Complete the quiz online and fill in all answers below.
1. A puck slides along an icy surface. What makes it slow down? It runs out of push

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It rubs against the ice It runs out of electricity 2. A boy sits halfway down a grassy slope. What force stops him sliding down? Weight Gravity Friction 3. On which surface will a toy sledge travel the furthest? Carpet Polished wood Ice 4. On which surface will a toy sledge travel the least distance? Carpet Polished wood Ice 5. The rougher the surface, ... the greater the friction the less the friction the same the level of friction 6. Which of the following is an example of trying to increase friction? Squirting oil into door hinges Spreading grit on icy roads Waxing the underneath of skis 7. Which of the following statements is true? Friction is a force that only occurs between solids Friction is a force that only occurs on rough surfaces Friction is a force that only occurs when surfaces touch each other 8. Which of the following statements is NOT true? Friction can only slow things down Friction is never useful Friction can stop things from moving 9. Air resistance and water resistance are both types of friction. Is this ... True False Neither true nor false 10. If you poured oil onto a wooden surface, the friction would ... be reduced be increased remain the same

7. Write your score from the online quiz here: ______/10

Name: _______________________________________ 8. Hit the CLOSE button(located at the bottom right) to exit full screen. 9. Click on What next? (located at the bottom right of the flash screen activity.) 10. Choose the Harder activity called FORCES in ACTION (located on the bottom under the word friction.) 11. Make the flash activity FULL SCREEN 12. Follow all directions at top of screen. Use the blue arrow to move forward through activity. 13. Complete the table online during the activity as well as on this paper. Remember to keep hitting RESET each time you complete a test and drag the weight and parachute back to the truck each time you reset. Gradient/Slope 1 No parachute Small parachute Big parachute Gradient/Slope 2 No parachute Small parachute Big parachute 14. Complete the online quiz as well as on this paper.
1. How could you make a sheet of paper fall as quickly as possible? Attach a parachute to it Cut it in half Screw it up into a ball 2. When an object falls, air resistance ... acts in the opposite direction to the weight acts in the same direction as the weight does not act at all 3. Weight is a force and is measured in ... Newtons kilograms meters 4. Where would you feel heaviest? The earth

No Weight

Small Weight

Big Weight

No Weight

Small Weight

Big Weight

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The moon You would feel equally heavy on both

5. Which of the following is TRUE? Gravity only acts through air, not through water or land Gravity does not act on helicopters or aeroplanes flying in the sky Gravity always acts towards the centre of the earth 6. If gravity pulls you towards the centre of the earth, why don't you fall through the pavement? Because gravity doesn't act through pavements Because the pavement exerts an equal force in the opposite direction Because gravity runs out 7. Which gives the smallest reading on a forcemeter? An apple suspended in water An apple suspended in air They both give the same reading 8. Which of these is not a force? Friction Weight Height 9. Which of these is FALSE? A moving object carries on moving until a force stops it A moving object eventually runs out of force and slows down A moving object travels in a line until a force changes its direction 10. When an object is at rest/stationary ... There are no forces acting on it There are forces acting on it but these forces are balanced There is just one force acting on it, gravity

15. Write your score from the online quiz here: ______/10 16. When finished with both sections of this activity, please visit one of the following interactive websites to continue exploring Gravity, Friction and Force. http://www.engineeringinteract.org/resources/parkworldplot/flash/concepts/allaboutforces.htm click on resources when finished to view other modules of forces and friction. http://www.engineeringinteract.org/resources/parkworldplot/parkworldplotlink.htm www.learner.org/interactives/parkphysics/index.html www.uen.org/3-6interactives/science.shtml choose 3rd grade roller coaster and/or 6th grade gravity launch http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/science/physical_processes/ choose either forces or friction and play. 17. Explain which enrichment website activity you choose and list at list 5 things/facts you learned from the activity. __________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________

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