Year 7: Air Resistance & Parachutes

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NOTE: 

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• Make sure everything in your Reference List has a corresponding In-Text citation in the body of your essay.

What is a force?

•  Britannica Online database
  
  NOTE: Passwords needed if accessing from home (check document emailed to you from Library).

•  Science in Context database
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• Physics for kids - Forces (Ducksters)

• Types of forces (Mocomi)

• Force and motion (Physics4Kids)

What is gravity?

•  Britannica Online database

NOTE: Passwords needed if accessing from home (check document emailed to you from Library)

•  Science in Context database

NOTE: Passwords needed if accessing from home (check document emailed to you from Library).

• What is gravity? (NASA Science)

• Gravity (Physics for Kids)

• Gravity definition and facts for kids (Edcraft)

What is air resistance?

•  Britannica Online database
  
  NOTE: Passwords needed if accessing from home (check document emailed to you from Library).

• What is air resistance? (Twinkl)

• Air resistance for kids (K8 School Lessons)

• Drag (Physics) facts for kids (Kiddle)

What are forces which act on a parachute as it falls?

• Falling and Stopping (GCSE BiteSize)

• Free fall and air resistance (The Physics Classroom)

• Parachutes (Explain That Stuff)

• Forces at work (University of Alaska Fairbanks)

What factors would affect the size of the forces which act on the parachute as it falls?

• Skydiving Science: Does the Size of a Parachute Matter? (Scientific American). Scroll down to 'Observations and Results'.

• Parachutes (University of California Santa Barbera)

• Balanced and unbalanced forces (University of Leicester) Scroll down to the last sentence on the page.

• Does size matter? (Science Buddies)

What are Newton’s Laws, which is most applicable to a parachute falling to the ground, and why is this? 

• Physics4 Kids: Newton's Laws of Motion

• TeacherTech: Newton's Laws of Motion

• Ducksters Physics for Kids: The Laws of Motion

• NASA Kid's Page: Newton's First Law Applied to Falling Objects

• NASA: Forces on a falling object (with air resistance)

This will be an in-text citation from Encyclopedia Britannica database:

Gravity, also called gravitation, in mechanics, the universal force of attraction acting between all matter.

            We now need to write this in our own words:
            Gravity is defined as the force that attracts matter towards
            other matter. 

This will be an in-text citation from Mocomi website:

Force is strength or energy applied towards any object for physical action or any movement. 

We now need to write this in our own words:
Force is strength or energy that influences the action or movement of an object.

1. Go to MyBib and create a new project called 7 Sci - Parachutes

2. Then go to this this website. Find and copy a sentence that would be useful in your assignment (if you're not sure what you need yet, any sentence is fine for now). 

3. Paste your sentence (called an 'in-text citation') into a new Word document & CHANGE IT INTO YOUR OWN WORDS. 

4. Go back to the website, and add it to your MyBib by clicking on the MyBib extension (little book icon) in the top right of your screen. Press 'Save to project' and it will send the information to MyBib. 

5. In MyBib - Find  'COPY IN-TEXT CITATION' under your source, hover over it, and click on the little clipboard icon which appears to save to memory .

6. Paste the citation at the end of your quote (in-text citation) in Word. (Move any existing full stop to the end of the sentence if necessary).