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This product is a review of contact and non-contact forces. It could also be used for an assessment. Students identify the type of forceif the force shown is contact or non-contactwhere they see this force in their daily lives.

This powerpoint will guide your students to explore the 3 states of matter. Go through the slides with your students. When you get to the final slide students are instructed to rule up their workbooks into three sections with a label for each third - solid, liquid and gas. Prior to the lesson you will have set up the tables with a variety of materials for students to investigate. You will require the following samples - small jar of gravel, small jar of water, small jar of oil, an empty label

Students will learn that everyday tasks that seem easy to us are difficult for a mechanical robot to perform. Students will investigate this by using a robotic toy hand. As a class we will discuss the limitations and challenges that robots face in grasping tools and manipulating them. To conduct this lesson you will need to purchase up to 12 or 14 robotic toy hands. This can be purchased at Toys R Us for about $7(Australian dollars) each. There are plenty of youtube clips that you can show t

The students made paper dart planes using the details from my website. Cut and paste this link to access the site. https://thescienceworkshop.weebly.com/flight.html After constructing their planes the students made teams of three to conduct their own challenge. Use the powerpoint to guide students about setting up their own fair test investigation, drawing a table in their Science journal and evaluating the investigation.

This resource is the first part or introduction to an activity investigating friction using remote control cars. For this lesson I purchased three different remote control vehicles from K Mart - a four wheel drive, a sports car and a jeep/buggy. Use the powerpoint to guide the students through the learning activities which include writing a prediction, conducting a fair test and recording their findings. The powerpoint also includes a procedure explaining how to set up the investigation on yo

This is the first part of a series of lessons investigating pressure. The images in the powerpoint will generate class discussion. The concluding image sets a challenge for the students about what will happen when a cup with a hole in it is dropped from a height.