Learners' understanding and thinking about forces

Examples from ECLIPSE of what students have said relating to forces:

Bert's understanding of the reciprocal nature of forces

Do the forces from the outer shells push the protons and the neutrons together?

Iodine's got a larger force that lithium, so it will pull towards the lithium more

Gravity is a force which pulls things towards the centre of the earth

The force of lack of electrons pulls two hydrogen atoms together

The sharing-out of nuclear charge

This is just one of a wide range of science topics that learners have talked about in ECLIPSE projects.


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