May the Force Be With You

We have started our new unit on Forces and Motion. We have learnt that Forces are all around us and we know that Forces are acting when things change direction, change shape or change speed. When a student passes a ball in netball, the change in the ball's direction and speed tells us that the student's hands have placed a force on the ball.

We decided to play ping-pong soccer to see what happens when we use our breath to place force on a small ball. The goal of the game was to blow the ball to our opponents side of the bench. Sometimes both players had equal puff and the ball did not move - this means that the two forces were balanced.

See the photos to watch the players in action.

The champ of the day was Troy Coughey and many others were highly successful too. We are going to do more experiments and show how forces affect our lives in many ways.

Look out for our upcoming video presentations!