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The Recognizing Force Types Video Tutorial describes the various types of forces that objects experience and discusses strategies for recognizing the presence of each type.
The video lesson answers the following questions:
What are the various types of forces that could act upon an object?
What is an effective strategy for analyzing a physical situation and identifying the specific types forces that are acting upon an object?
Concept Builder: Recognizing Forces
Students love Concept Builders. They provide practice on questions with immediate feedback to answers. Missed questions re-appear until mistakes are corrected. There are mulitple levels of difficulty. This Concept Builder provides practice with recognizing the force types acting upon objects.
Concept Builder: Match That Free-Body Diagram
Similar to the above, this Concept Builder provides practice recognizing force types and usinig the recognition to identify the free-body diagram for an object in a given situation.
Teacher Toolkits: Newton's Second Law
Teacher Toolkits provide teachers a collection of annotated links to vetted resources on the internet that are standards-based and multimedia reliant. This particular Toolkit is on Newton's Second Law and should assist a teacher in finding resources for planning lessons that are next steps to this video.
Concept Builder: Recognizing Forces
Students love Concept Builders. They provide practice on questions with immediate feedback to answers. Missed questions re-appear until mistakes are corrected. There are mulitple levels of difficulty. This Concept Builder provides practice with recognizing the force types acting upon objects. It's a great in-class activity.
Concept Builder: Match That Free-Body Diagram
Similar to the above, this Concept Builder provides practice recognizing force types and usinig the recognition to identify the free-body diagram for an object in a given situation. Another great in-class activity.
Do you like the slides we used? They are available in our low cost Teacher Presentation Pack, along with other updated materials used in our presentation.