Have students create a mini news article for a recreation or sports magazine about how friction plays a role in a sport of their choice. Students will need to include a colorful, creative picture of the sport in action and describe in a paragraph of four to six sentences how friction affects a player's performance in that sport. Have students present their articles and display them on the bulletin board. Physical education and health teachers can be invited to the class presentations. Also, this activity can be a teacher-led demonstration with student volunteers for the whole class.
Students can dictate descriptions of their pictures to an adult or older student.
Students can use the Internet and other multimedia resources to create a slide-show presentation for the class about how friction and Newton's laws of motion play a role in sports. Have students design their own friction experiments and present their materials, procedure, data, and analysis in a written lab report. Back to Top 1. Explain how surface type influences the amount of friction there is. Discuss the relationship between the size and weight of an object and the amount of friction that is present.