Forces - Understanding Air Resistance for Middle School Science

This fully resourced lesson includes an animated PowerPoint which:

• makes understanding air resistance as collisions between the front of an object and air particles very easy to understand;
• demonstrates why streamlined bodies reduce air resistance to travel faster;
• provides a visual explanation of the relationship between acceleration due to gravity, air resistance, steady speed and why parachutes work.

Understanding is reinforce by two simple but exciting practicals investigating:

• the relationship between surface area of a parachute and air resistance;
• Do streamlined objects travel faster in water?

What’s Included

• Animated PowerPoint for teaching with exit ticket quiz
• Flip it (pupil writes questions to given answers)
• Anticipation Guides (combined starter and plenary)
• Foldable
• Cut-and-stick activity pupil uses to make their own notes)
• Worksheet to support the PowerPoint (X3)
• Fact sheet
• Homework plus answers (x3)
• Fact share worksheet
• 12 Taboo cards
• Pupil progress self-assessment checklist
• Exit Ticket
• Suggested lesson plan showing choices possible between resources

This pack contains 16 resources and it is intended that the teacher uses them to build their own unique lesson to take account of student ability and time available. Literacy, oracy, self-assessment and peer assessment are all built in to the resources. These features are clearly marked on the comprehensive one-page flow chart lesson plan which shows where the logical choices between resources can be made. There are three differentiated and engaging homeworks which can also be used as classwork if so desired. 

Other resources in this series

Forces - What is a Force? - Middle school Science

Forces - Weight and Mass - Middle School Science

Forces - What is friction? - Middle School Science

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