Investigating Forces
Plan and carry out investigations into forces, including measuring force with a newton meter, investigating Hooke's Law, and collecting and interpreting motion data to test Newton's laws
Share and support
Teaching Table
Set out your lesson
Practise the bounded task in Investigating Forces; see exact limits before inferring broader coverage.
Can read tables and proportional graphs; use supplied data only, no hanging masses or stretching springs.
Exact directed source edges retained; earlier authorship is not learner attainment.
These supplied stage cards
Scrap paper and pencil; oral/pointing response where appropriate
Read readiness and decide on support without treating prerequisite authoring as learner readiness.
Open Show first and explain its model.
Use Guided Try with support and its separate adult key.
Close Show and guided keys before Try, unless this Try is explicitly supported.
Reflect on an actual attempt, including help used.
Use the supplied screen cards; copying the exact task to paper is optional, not required.
Use only invented scenarios and optional anonymous local notes. Do not request names, photos, family finances, medical data, accounts or uploads. Stop uncomfortable physical activity.
Use only invented scenarios and optional anonymous local notes. Do not request names, photos, family finances, medical data, accounts or uploads. Stop uncomfortable physical activity.
Use the complete materials on screen or print only the current sheet. Keep adult guidance out of learner view. Retain an earlier model only when the current step supplies it as context.
Teaching limits and safe use
These are finite task opportunities, not proof of mastery. Record what was attempted and what support was used.
Supplied-data interpretation and planning only; actual newton-meter use and spring investigation clauses blocked, and no experimental acceleration comparison made.
Use only invented scenarios and optional anonymous local notes. Do not request names, photos, family finances, medical data, accounts or uploads. Stop uncomfortable physical activity.
Family records and proof options
Keep a record of your learning
Save photos, notes, and attendance. Export a proof packet for compliance or portfolio reviews.
Learning resources
Reviewed external links that reinforce this concept. They do not replace Gakuva’s teaching approach.
No reviewed resources for this concept yet.
The teaching approach above still stands. Curated practice links will appear here as the shelf fills.
Check understanding
- Uses a newton meter correctly to measure forces in newtons
- Sets up and conducts a Hooke's Law investigation, recording force and extension and plotting a graph
- Identifies and controls variables in a force investigation
- Calculates acceleration from force and mass data and compares with experimental results
“If your child set up an experiment hanging weights on a spring and measuring how much it stretched, could they describe how they would make it a fair test, record the results, and show what Hooke's Law looks like on a graph?”
Curriculum record
- Type
- Procedural
- Subject
- Science
- Domain
- Forces & Motion
- Age range
- Ages 12–13
Standards