Level: Year 1 to 6
This session focuses on the physical laws that govern the movement of bodies.
We use toys to discover the push & pull forces that make them move.
Find out that energy is required to create the unbalanced force.
* Types of forces: push & pull
* Does no movement mean “no force”?
* The fundamentals of motion, unbalanced force & energy
* Can we levitate a product by balancing the acting forces?
* Can we balance and even beat gravity with other forces?
* Direct acting forces and forces acting over a distance
* Examples of forces between molecules, smaller objects and massive objects such as Earth and Sun
* Snr students: See all three of Newton’s laws in action
* We find that energy can be stored in batteries, food, muscles, springs, fuel, elastics, capacitors and we see examples of all
* We discover how energy is converted from potential energy to kinetic energy in toys, steam engines, see chemical energy ‘explode’
* We float objects and eventually, a student on air!