Physics4kids
Physics 4 Kids: Mechanics and Motion
Motion is one of the key topics in physics. Everything in the universe moves. It might only be a small amount of movement and very very slow, but movement does happen. Don't forget that even if you appear to be standing still, the Earth...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Representing Forces on a Free Body Diagram: Lesson 2
This lesson demonstrates how to represent the forces acting on an object using a free-body diagram. It is 2 of 2 in the series titled "Representing Forces on a Free-Body Diagram."
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Forces in Action
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this unit children apply their knowledge of a variety of forces to contexts in which objects are stationary because forces on them are balanced. Children learn about the changes in motion which occur...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Forces in Motion
[Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson explores forces, and how they react to the world around us. It also discusses Newton's Laws of Science.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Magnets and Springs
[Free Registration/Login Required] This unit gives children experience of forces including attraction and repulsion between magnets, compression and stretching of springs, and stretching of elastic bands. They learn that these forces...
Treehut
Suzy's World: Aerodynamics
Use this fact sheet to find out what makes things fly with this fact sheet on aerodynamics.
Other
60 Second Science: Rolling Down Ramps Experiment
Explore the characteristics of inclined planes while observing how drops of colored water flow down a ramp and on different surfaces.
SMART Technologies
Smart: May the Forces of Push and Pull Be With You!
Read, brainstorm, drag objects, erase to reveal answers, and move weights on a balance scale to learn about forces, mass, gravity, weight, and balance in this activity created by SMART.
BBC
Bbc Schools: Revisewise Science: Forces
Use this site to review information about forces, concentrating on balanced and unbalanced forces. The information is provided in an interactive activity. There is also a factsheet presenting information on balanced and unbalanced...
Upper Canada District School Board
Tom Stretton's Chemistry Pages: Heat and Work Engines
Find out some history behind engines, and learn how thermal energy and work play a part in how engines run.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Physics Simulation: Free Body Simulation
Learn to draw free-body diagrams in this simulation where you place arrows to indicate the directions that forces are acting on an object.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Tower of Coins Experiment
Demonstrate inertia by pushing a nickel out of the bottom of a stack without disturbing the rest of the stack.
Other
Biography of Charles De Gaulle
This site provides a brief biography of French leader Charles de Gaulle, focusing on his influence during World War II.