Date:

Grade: 10

Number of Students:

Subject: Integrated Science

Unit Topic: Mechanics

Lesson Topic: Forces

General Objective:

Student should be familiar with various effects of forces.

Specific Objectives
At the end of the lesson on forces, students should be able to:
1. Explain the effects of forces on a body
2. Identify different types of forces acting on a body.
3. Determine the weight of various objects
4. Identify situations in which the application of a force will result in a turning effect.

Previous Knowledge
Students should have prior knowledge of:

1. How do objects move and change position ( pushes and pulls)

Key Skills
Observing, critical thinking, inferring, predicting and communication
Key Vocabulary
Force, motion, shape, size, body, applied force, gravitational force, normal force, frictional
force, air resistance, tension force.
Resources
Technology Utilized

( ) Chalkboard/ White Board ( ) Overhead Projector ( ) Computer

( ) Video ( ) Tape recorder ( ) Photocopied material ( ) Visual Transparencies

( ) Multimedia Projector

Others:
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Teacher Strategies/ Student Activities

( ) Brainstorming ( ) Puzzle ( ) Question & Answer ( ) Oral

( ) Discussion ( ) Research ( ) Photograph Usage ( ) Skills worksheet

( ) Experimenting ( ) Handouts ( ) Co-operative Learning ( ) Case Studies

( ) Learning Logs ( ) Portfolio ( ) Newspaper Article/ Stories ( ) Field trip

( ) Role Play ( ) Drama ( ) Group Work ( ) Report ()

Summary of Content.
A force is always either a push or a pull.
Forces act in pairs
Forces acting between two bodies always act in opposite directions on these bodies.
A force produces one or more of the following effects on a body on which it acts:
 Change in position
 Change of dimensions
 Change of shape
  Change of speed in a moving body
 Change of direction in a moving body.
There are six main types of force.
Gravitational Force: the attraction between two masses, whether or not they are separated.
Mechanical Force: a contact force that acts between two masses, and can be produced in a
number of different ways.
Electrostatic Force: acts between bodies are electrically charged.
Magnetic Force: acts between magnetized bodies (including current-carrying conductors).
Elastic Force: causes bodies to suffer a change of dimensions.
Nuclear Force: binds protons and neutrons together in an atomic nucleus.
The weight of a body acts from its center of mass.

Reference
Farley, A. (2009). Physics for CSEC Examinaton. Macmillan.

Procedure/Activities

Engagement
1. Teacher will read the following poem to students:
Push and pull,
Through friction of course,
To make things move,
You gotta’ use force!
Forces, yes forces,
Are really first-rate,
They get objects moving,
Accelerate!
Forces are cool,
They work with a pulley,
pulley
Don’t use it to fight,
Don’t be a bully!
A rocket needs force,
To fly to the moon,
rocket
A car uses force,
To get us there soon,
A smile takes force,
 To show off our teeth,
A wave has some force,
To move on a reef,
A horse uses force,
To win a horse race,
Without any force,
We’re stuck in one place!

2. During this time the teacher will introduce the Blow dryer demonstration to
students to get them thinking about forces and how they can be applied.
3. The teacher will start the blow dryer on the lowest setting while there is a ping pong
ball on top. The ping pong ball should seem like it is floating over the blow dryer.
*What do you think is causing the ping pong ball to stay in place?
* What kind of forces are at work here?
* What do you think will happen if we put the setting on the blow dryer on high?
4. The teacher will then turn the blow dryer on high and the ball will fly off. Teacher
will ask:
*What happened here?
*Why do you think the ball flew off?
What kind of force was that?
What two forces are exerted on the ball during the demonstration?
Are the two forces balanced?
What happens to an object when forces are balanced?
What happens to an object when forces are unbalanced?

After students have observed the demonstration they will take about two minutes to draw and
describe what happened with the ping pong ball.

Exploration
Group Demonstration
5. Students will divide themselves into groups for this section.
6. Students will receive the materials to be observed.
7. For the first activity they will place a marble into a petri dish and make observations
as the move the marble in a circular motion.
a) What do you notice about the marble as you sin it around?
b) What happens if you stop?
c) What are the forces acting on the marble?
 8. For the second demonstration students will use the plate and marble and they will
move the marble around the plate and make an observation about what happens when
the marble falls through the whole.
a) What happened as you moved the marble this time?
b) What would we call this?
c) Did you make any observations after the marble fell? If so what did you see?

Explanation
9. At this time students will receive the questions on their papers and explain their
observations they made during all three demonstrations.
10. After students are done discussing what they learned teacher will present a
presentation on force and motion.
Elaboration
Students will be given a matching vocabulary handout to complete as an assessment of
whether they understood concepts presented in this lesson.
After students have completed the handout the class can discuss the answers and relate the
vocabulary to certain scenarios that were presented in the demonstrations.

Evaluation
Teacher and students will play a game of jeopardy to assess how much they have learned.