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Science / Year 7 / Science Understanding / Physical sciences
Curriculum content descriptions
Change to an object’s motion is caused by unbalanced forces, including Earth’s gravitational attraction, acting on the object (ACSSU117)
Elaborations
- investigating the effects of applying different forces to familiar objects
- investigating common situations where forces are balanced, such as stationary objects, and unbalanced, such as falling objects
- investigating a simple machine such as lever or pulley system
- exploring how gravity affects objects on the surface of Earth
- considering how gravity keeps planets in orbit around the sun
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ScOT terms
Motion