Lesson Planning
Use a range of sports equipment, ground coverings and a Newton Meter to investigate and measure the effects of friction on various sports. Then create your own set of sporting ‘top trumps’ cards with all your Norwegian sports knowledge and discoveries and present them to winter Olympics executives.
Teaching Outcomes:
- To record a range of physical and human aspects of geography that impact on winter sports.
- To carry out an investigation into the impact of friction on a toy car moving across different surfaces.
- To create and analyse a bar chart based on data from their science investigation.
Children will:
- Investigate and compare the impact of friction on stopping distances for a range of surfaces.
- Present and interpret data in bar charts.
- Create Norwegian sports trumps cards using all of the information gleaned throughout the block.
- Use all resources developed during the block to brief Olympics executives on Norwegian sports.