What Are Forces?

A wonderful explanation and investigation of forces.

Pushing and Pulling

A resource that introduces children to the forces of pushing and pulling.

Force Labels

An open ended resource where children identify the forces at work in a playground.

Force and Acceleration

A great tutorial that uses bob sleds as an example of how if more force is used then there will be more acceleration.

Changing Shapes of Materials

Children learn about forces that change the shape of objects and identify which forces are at work in a given instance.

Pushes and Pulls

An online experiment where children look at the affect gradient and pushes can have on a toy car.

Forces

Choose to either squeeze, stretch, bend, slide or twist an object to see what forces are at work and a real life example.

Examples of Wedges

Click on either a nail, door stop, ax, chisel or knife to find out more about the wedge.