KS3/4 Science - Demonstrating Physics: Forces
In this programme, David Richardson from the Institute of Physics is invited to the Twilight Club at St. James' Catholic High School in London to demonstrate his physics experiments to science staff.
Alongside these demonstrations, we see one teacher testing the experiments out with his Year 7 pupils. Almost all of the experiments are created using everyday objects. They include:
- Lemonade bottles filled with water containing tomato ketchup sachets which act like Cartesian divers
- Marshmallows in a wine bottle expanding while the air is pumped out of the bottle to demonstrate the effect of air pressure
- Surprising ways of showing turning moments
- The effects of gravity
- Floating and sinking
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Facebookvictoriaashton on 19 January 2010
The physics experiment with the glass and hankie is excellent. Having scanned most programs for at least 2 hours, it wa ...
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- Duration: 15:00 minutes
- Published: 28 April 2006
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The physics experiment with the19 January 2010 - 18:49
The physics experiment with the glass and hankie is excellent.
Having scanned most programs for at least 2 hours, it was an incredible find. I will be using it tomorrow.
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This is a fun and quite21 October 2006 - 09:16
This is a fun and quite interesting programme, however it fails to deliver what is really needed. A much better result would be to re-broadcast the old BBC series, "Science in Action" which had 2 excellent episodes, one on Pressure and one on Forces. These demo's are gimmicky but actually rather confusing from the science teaching point of view ( as the young male teacher pointed out!). Good to see the style of the young Head of Science with his enthusistic year 7 science club, asking THEM to think about the answers. For bright kids, good stuff, but not a good way to teach forces. The exception was the "box" demo - superb as a starter activity to a lesson on centre of mass or to a series of lessons on forces, building on Primary school work, so you explore their existing ideas ( before changing them!)
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