Outdoor Activity - Split up class into four teams (about 5 people per team). All teams will draw a distance from
a hat. Student 1 will stand at the actual distance that they drew from a wall. Student 2 will stand about
5 meters away from the wall. All students will measure their distances with a meter stick (reinforcement of using the
metric system). Student 1 standing 5 meters from the wall will then throw kick balls against the
wall and try to hit where student 2 is standing. Another student from the team will time with a stopwatch
from when the ball hits the wall to when the ball hits the ground. One student will measure the actual distance
that the ball traveled. Have teams switch up to about four distances depending on time. The Team that gets the
closest to the drawn distance wins some bonus points.
This activity is meant for the students to see that if they apply to strong a force when they throw the kick balls
against the wall, it will accelerate accordingly with respect to their force, allowing them to see a direct relation
between force and acceleration. Different balls should be used to help students see that force, mass, and acceleration
are all related by Newton's second law of motion.
In the event of rain - a similar activity may be preformed indoors as well.
Split the class up into four teams. Students will be given bottles filled with different levels of sand or water
The teams will then be required to roll their respective bottles across the floor to a specified finish line within 10 sec.
Any team that hits the finish line EXACTLY wins. Any team that CROSSES OVER the finish
line loses.
This activity again is meant to help students see that with objects of different masses, you need to apply a different
amount of force to each object to accelerate it accordingly in order to have the object stop when you want to. This activity
also allows students to see the relationships between force, mass, and acceleration from Newton's Second Law of Motion.
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