By: Vandana Bathla

I will first explain Newton’s Second law to the students.

I know that a student listening to the Newton’s Law for the first time wont understand about it. So for that I have a cool activity that will enhance their interest and make them understand Newton’s Second Law properly.

I will first show the students this interesting video to create their interest in the topic.

The video is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgH-4P73e0A

Then I will further explain the video to the students and the concept of balanced and an unbalanced force.

To further enhance students’ understanding towards Newton’s Second Law I will put them into groups.

I will ask one person from each group to stand still and then in order of turn the other group members will carefully push him/her. This will make them understand the fact that different students apply different forces depending on their masses.

Since the group member who remains standing still is the same, the mass being pushed will be constant.

When the person is being pushed, he/she will be dragged forward according to the force applied which explains the concept that if more force is applied, there will be more acceleration.

If less force is applied the person will travel less distance comparatively and hence there would be less acceleration.

After that I will show them this cool video which further goes insight with Newton’s Second and it is the same activity they did.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XC3t5KF_DLE