Investigate the wonderful world of physics with this workshop looking at different forces, their effects and the rules which govern them. This workshop covers a variety of forces in a carousel of activities which allow students to investigate these forces through practical work, group investigations and technology such as VR headsets.

What will be covered:

• balanced and unbalanced forces,
• the definitions and examples of contact and non-contact forces, 
• the effects of common forces (friction, air resistance, weight and magnetism) on different objects,
• scientific methods of investigating and measuring the effects of forces.

The goals of the workshop are:

• to explore the effects of different forces through a variety of activities,
• develop their skills in measuring and recording data,
• be able to describe and explain the effects of various forces.

Curriculum Links: 

• compare how things move on different surfaces,
• notice that some forces need contact between two objects, but magnetic forces can act at a distance,
• observe how magnets attract or repel each other and attract some materials and not others,
• compare and group together a variety of everyday materials on the basis of whether they are attracted to a magnet, and identify some magnetic materials.
• describe magnets as having two poles,
• predict whether two magnets will attract or repel each other, depending on which poles are facing,
• identify the effects of air resistance, water resistance and friction, that act between moving surfaces.