NJASE GIRLS SECONDARY SCHOOL

DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL SCIENCES

LESSON PLAN

Teacher’s Name: MOONDE RICHARD

Date: 04/10/17 Time: 07:00hrs

Duration: 80 MINUTES

Grade: 10 A Subject: Physics

Topic: Forces

LESSON OBJECTIVES:

By the end of this lesson, pupils should be able to (PSBAT):

1. Describe the relationship between force and acceleration.
2. Explain the relationship between mass and acceleration.
3. Perform calculations on force.
TEACHING/ LEARNING MATERIALS:
 Chalk
 Text books
RESOURCES
 Progress in Science 10
 MK Senior secondary physics, grade 10
TEACHING STRATEGIES
 Learner centered
 Question and answer.
 Teacher exposition

1
INTRODUCTION (5 minutes)
TEACHER ACTIVITY
Ability to: Mind capture: What causes
-Explain. objects to increase their
acceleration?
-Critical thinking
LESSON DEVELOPMENT (30 minutes)
Content/Main Teacher Activity
Concepts &
Skills.
-Critical thinking -Teacher asks the learner
what happens to the motion
-Awareness of a body when the force is
increased.
-Calculating.
-Teacher explains why a car
being pushed by one person
would move faster when
pushed by 4 people.
-Teacher writes notes on the
board and gives
mathematical examples.
2
LEARNER ACTIVITY
Discussing
Attempting to answer the question
Learner Activity/Lesson notes/Expected
Response.
-Discussing
-Responding to questions
-Writing notes
Class notes
-when forces acting on a body are balanced,
nothing about its motion changes, thus, a
constant force produces a constant
acceleration.
-According to newton’s second law of
motion, a net force that acts on a body
accelerates it in the direction of the force.
-Mathematically, this statement can be
written as
𝐹 = 𝑚𝑎
Where a= acceleration, m= mass and F=
force.
-Here, the mass of the body is constant.
Example: A car of mass 2000kg is driven
on a frictionless surface by a force of
1600N. What is its acceleration? Compare
this to the acceleration produced when the
force is 800N.
-Suppose the car in example 1 was moving
on a rough surface. We take into
consideration the force of friction.
 -Friction is the force that tends to resist the
motion of an object. It therefore always acts
in the opposite direction to the motion of an
object.
-Consider the example below.
-The object below has mass 400kg and is
being pulled to the right by a force of
1200N. However, it experiences friction
force of 400N. what is the acceleration of
the object?

400N 1200N
Fr
400kg

Mass and acceleration

-Suppose now, that the force on the body is
constant. How does the mass of the body
affect its acceleration?

-from newton’s second law of motion, we

have that
𝐹 = 𝑚𝑎
𝐹
From which 𝑎 = 𝑚
.
Example: Consider a 200kg object and a
100kg object. If a force of 400N is acting on
both objects, what is the acceleration of
each.

3
LESSON CONCLUSION (5minutes)
Content/Main Concepts &
Skills
-Critical thinking.
-Communication
Teacher Activity Learner Activity/Lesson
notes/Expected Response.
-Teacher asks learners if they Discussing
can now describe the
relationships of mass, force
and acceleration.
-In conclusion, it can be said
that the acceleration of a body
is directly proportional to the
applied force and inversely
proportional to its mass.

Home work:
1) State newton’s second law of motion.
2) A 3,000kg truck accelerates to 5m/s.s, what was the force applied?
3) Describe the relationship between force and acceleration.

LESSON EVALUATION:
The lesson was quite successful, it ended right on time and reached a conclusion. Learner
participation was good.