Resources for this Unit

You won’t have to "force" your students to learn — they’ll push, pull, drop, roll, and fling their way through a variety of demonstrations and activities illustrating the different forces on everything around us. https://www.scienceworld.ca/resources/units/forces

PhET Forces and Motion Sample Learning Goals

  • Identify when forces are balanced vs unbalanced.

  • Determine the sum of forces (net force) on an object with more than one force on it.

  • Predict the motion of an object with zero net force.

  • Predict the direction of motion given a combination of forces.


"Newton’s Laws of Motion: Sir Isaac Newton’s laws of motion explain the relationship between a physical object and the forces acting upon it. Understanding this information provides us with the basis of modern physics!"

Christa's Lost Lessons on Newton's Laws of Motions: https://www.challenger.org/challenger_lessons/christas-lost-lessons/