Air Resistance & Friction
Identify the effects of air resistance, water resistance, and friction, and understand that these forces act between moving surfaces to oppose motion
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Can your child explain why a parachute slows you down, why swimming is harder than walking, and why bike brakes use rubber pads?
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Curriculum alignment
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Australian Curriculum v9 candidate
identify how forces can be exerted by one object on another and investigate the effect of frictional, gravitational and magnetic forces on the motion of objects
describe how weathering, erosion, transportation and deposition cause slow or rapid change to Earth’s surface
Victorian Curriculum 2.0 codes & levels only
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