Online Friction and Forces Exploration Lesson: It Runs Out of Push It Rubs Against The Ice It Runs Out of Electricity

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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 Yellow light Red light

Vinyl
Wood
Carpet
Ice
5. Answer the following questions:
Why do you think, with the same push, the sleigh travels different distances on different substances?
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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? ______________________________________________________________________________
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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
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
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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
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.)
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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 Weight Small Weight Big Weight

No parachute
Small parachute
Big parachute
Gradient/Slope 2 No Weight Small Weight Big Weight

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
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

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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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Name: _______________________________________ Period:_______

Online Friction and Forces Exploration Lesson

3. Choose the Friction activity

Material/substance of track Yellow light Red light

5. Answer the following questions:

the screen? ______________________________________________________________________________

1. A puck slides along an icy surface. What makes it slow down?

It runs out of push

It rubs against the ice

It runs out of electricity

3. On which surface will a toy sledge travel the furthest?

the greater the friction

the less the friction

the same the level of friction

Squirting oil into door hinges

Spreading grit on icy roads

Waxing the underneath of skis

Friction is a force that only occurs between solids

Friction is a force that only occurs on rough surfaces

Friction can only slow things down

Friction is never useful

Friction can stop things from moving

Neither true nor false

remain the same

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

Gradient/Slope 1 No Weight Small Weight Big Weight

Gradient/Slope 2 No Weight Small Weight Big Weight

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?

Screw it up into a ball

acts in the opposite direction to the weight

acts in the same direction as the weight

does not act at all

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

Because gravity doesn't act through pavements

Because gravity runs out

An apple suspended in water

An apple suspended in air

They both give the same reading

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

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

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