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AS 9702 · 3.1 · Dynamics · Lesson bundle

Newton's laws, force and motion

The three laws that govern motion, made lesson-ready: inertia and the first law, F = m a as the rate of change of momentum, and equal-and-opposite third-law pairs, with the difference between mass and weight at the centre. Plan, worksheet with answers, slides, and a Frayer Model activity on mass and weight, built around the same-mass-different-weight model and the site simulation Force, Mass and Acceleration.

Syllabus
9702, 3.1
Level
AS
Duration
60 minutes
Activity
Frayer Model
Core visual
Mass and weight on Earth and the Moon
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Lesson plan

The 60-minute plan, with the three laws, inertia, mass versus weight, F = m a, third-law pairs, three worked examples, examiner traps and differentiation.

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Worksheet and answers

Original AS questions across recall, mass and weight, the second law F = m a, third-law pairs and reasoning, with a full worked answer key.

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Slides

Your actual slides, presented right in the browser, with the live simulation linked beneath; the download is fully editable.

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21st century skills activity

A Frayer Model on mass and weight with both four-box grids and a teacher model, plus the PIES rationale and a facilitation guide, so it runs faithfully.

The matching topic page and simulation

Send learners to the lesson online

This bundle pairs with the student topic page Newton's laws of motion, which carries the interactive explanation, and with the site simulation Force, Mass and Acceleration, which lets learners vary the force and the mass and watch the acceleration change in real time.

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How it is built

Break the mass-weight confusion

The laws are short to state but easy to misuse: that a moving object needs a force to keep going, that a third-law pair acts on one body, that weight can be quoted in kilograms. The lesson names each one and breaks it, with the same-mass-different-weight model holding mass and weight apart.

The Frayer Model then makes learners define each term by its boundary, and the non-examples box forces a commitment to what mass and weight are not. It ships with both grids and a teacher model, so it can be run faithfully.

Original work by the TheLucidSTEM team. Questions are written in the style of the papers; no past paper question is reproduced. Supplied in editable formats so you can adapt them freely.
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