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Science - Grade 6
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Quarter 3, Week No. 1
Title: Friction Affecting Motion
First Edition, 2021

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Science 6, Quarter 3, Week 1

FRICTION AFFECTING MOTION

Name: _______________________________ Section: ________________

Learning Objective:
Infer how friction and gravity affect movements of different objects.
(MELC-CODE: S6FE-IIIa-c-1)

Unpacked Competencies:
 Define and identify the kinds of friction.
 Describe how friction affects motion.
 Identify conditions when friction seems to resist motion.
 Compare how objects move in different surfaces.
 Demonstrate ways on how friction affects motion.

Key Concepts

Friction
Try to slide your hand across the top of your desk or table. You feel the
force which moves against the palm of your
hand. That is friction.
Friction is a force between two bodies
which are in contact with each other. Friction is
a contact force that is present in walking,
running, playing, writing, and pushing objects.
Figure 1. sliding hand across the table
Kinds of Friction
 Sliding Friction is the amount of force needed to start an object to
move. It is also called dry friction. The boy needs force to keep the book
moving. This is the force that keeps the floor and the rock in place.
When sliding friction is acting, another force must be present to keep
an object moving. Sliding friction is caused by a chemical bonding
between surfaces.
A book sliding off a desk and brakes slowing down a wheel are
both examples of sliding friction. Sliding friction acts in a direction
opposite the direction of the motion.

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Author: Marilou G. Salas
School/Station: Bayugan Central Elementary School SPED Center
School Division: Bayugan City Division
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  Rolling Friction is the force needed to slow
down a moving or rolling object. As shown
in the picture, once the rock has started
moving, the boy may apply lesser force just
to keep it moving. Rolling friction slows
down the motion of an object rolling along
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Figure 2. A boy pushing a rock

 Static Friction occurs in motionless objects. It prevents an object from
moving against a surface. It is the force that keeps a book from sliding
off a desk, even when the desk is slightly tilted. It is also the force that
allows you to pick up an object without the object slipping through your
fingers. To move something, you must first overcome the force of static
friction between the object and the surface on which it is resting.

 Fluid Friction is friction that acts on objects that are moving through
a fluid. Fluids include liquids and gases. If you have ever tried to push
your open hand through the water in a tub or
pool, then you have experienced fluid friction.
You can feel the resistance of the water against
your hand. Look at the skydiver in the figure
below. He is falling towards the Earth with a
parachute. Resistance of the air against the
parachute slows his descent. The faster or larger
Figure 3. Skydiving
a moving object is, the greater is the fluid
resisting its motion. That is why there is greater air resistance against
the parachute than the skydiver’s body.
Friction Affecting the Motion of Objects
 Friction opposes motion or movement. It causes the object that moves
along a surface to slow down and eventually stop. Friction acts between
the surfaces in contact. The direction of friction is always against the
direction of the applied force.
 It is difficult to stop or start moving when little friction is around. Too
much friction may also be a problem. For example, it is difficult to move
a heavy box on a cemented floor than on a tiled floor because the surface
of the cemented floor is rough while the tiled floor is smooth.
 Sometimes friction needs to be increased. At times we need to decrease
it. The surface of the table tennis racket is usually padded with rubber
so that the tennis balls will not slip when they hit the pad. While some
handles of tennis rackets are wrapped with cloth to give a better hold
on the racket. This way the racket will not fly off when the player swings
it. So, it is simple. To increase friction, you must make the surface
rough.

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Author: Marilou G. Salas
School/Station: Bayugan Central Elementary School SPED Center
School Division: Bayugan City Division
email address: marilou.salas@deped.gov.ph
How Objects Move in Different Surfaces
While riding a car, you notice that it travels fast on a cemented road
and then slows down when it passes a bumpy road. There
is more friction between the car’s wheels and a bumpy
cemented road. Friction slows down the car’s motion.
When the car is nearing the road intersection, the driver
steps on the brakes. The motion of the car slows down
and then comes to a stop. Stepping on the brakes
increases the friction between the brakes and the wheels, Figure 4. Car tires
as a result, the wheels turn slower. As the vehicle
continues moving with the wheels turning slower, the friction between the
wheels and the road increases, so the car stops. The rougher is the surface,
the stronger is the friction, hence the motion of an object is slow.
Friction is a force between two different
surfaces that slide against each other. It is
the force acting against you which means it
is hard for you to stop sliding across a shiny
wooden floor while wearing socks. The
amount of friction between your feet and the
floor surface determines how well you can
Figure 5. feet sliding on a shiny wooden floor slide. The combination of surfaces, such as
socks on a shiny wooden floor, produce very
little friction. The smoother the surface is, the lesser friction there will be.

Exercises/Activities

Activity 1A: Friction All Around

Objective: Define and identify the kinds of friction.
What to do: Read each item carefully. Choose the correct word from the box
that completes the ideas in each number. Write your answer on the space
provided.

Fluid friction Friction Rolling friction

Sliding friction Static friction

1. ____________________ is a force between two bodies which are in contact

with each other.
2. ____________________ is the force resisting the motion of a rolling object on
a surface. It occurs when balls, roller bearings and wheels roll freely over
a surface.

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3. ____________________ occurs in motionless objects. It prevents an object
from moving against a surface. It is the force that keeps a book from sliding
off a desk, even when the desk is slightly tilted.
4. ____________________ is a friction that acts on objects that are moving
through a fluid. Fluids include liquids and gases.
5. ____________________ is the amount of force needed to start an object to
move. It is also called dry friction.

Activity 1B: Knowing You More

Objective: Define and identify the kinds of friction.
What to do: Read the situations carefully and identify the kind of friction
occurs. Choose your answer from the box below. Write you answer on the
space provided before each number.

Fluid friction Rolling friction Sliding friction Static friction

_______________ 1. A piece of notebook is placed on the table remains still.

Friction keeps the notebook from sliding off the table even
when the table is slightly tilted.
_______________ 2. My mother goes to a grocery store to buy goods for our
family. As she goes around the store, she used a pushcart
to carry the goods instead of a basket.
_______________ 3. Swimmers have difficulty swimming against the water
current.
_______________ 4. When we move a block of wood on sandpaper, the
movement of the wood is affected. The block of wood moved
slowly with more force needed to move it.
_______________ 5. A skydiver is falling towards the Earth with a parachute.
The resistance of the air against the parachute slows his
descent.

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Author: Marilou G. Salas
School/Station: Bayugan Central Elementary School SPED Center
School Division: Bayugan City Division
email address: marilou.salas@deped.gov.ph
Activity 2: Move My Sticky Brain
Objective: Describe how friction affects motion.
What to do: Read each item carefully. Encircle the letter of the correct answer.
1. Which of the following is the best description of friction?
A. Friction is a force.
B. Friction is never useful.
C. Friction is needed to make us stand still.
D. Friction is a force between two bodies which are in contact with each
other.
2. A girl sits on a grassy hillside. Which force stops her from sliding down?
A. air resistance C. friction
B. force D. gravity
3. On which surface would a push car travel the fastest?
A. carpet C. sand
B. tiled floor D. sandpaper
4. On which surface would a push car travel the slowest?
A. carpet C. wooden floor
B. ice D. tiled floor
5. Which statement is TRUE?
A. The rougher the surface, the greater is the friction.
B. The rougher the surface, the same level of friction.
C. The rougher the surface, the lesser is the friction.
D. The rougher the surface, the limited is the friction.
6. Which does not support to the statement, “the smoother the surface is, the
lesser friction there will be”.
A. oiling a bike C. oiling a car engine
B. waxing the floor D. moving table in a cemented floor
7. All materials below can help reduce friction EXCEPT ____________.
A. ball bearings C. sand
B. lubricants D. wax
8. If you polish a wooden floor, what will happen?
A. Friction will decrease. C. Friction makes you float.
B. Friction will increase. D. Friction remains the same.
9. Which of the following has a greater friction?
A. polished floor C. tiled floor
B. sandy floor D. wet floor
10. Which of the following shows that friction is undesirable?
A. lighting matchsticks C. walking on the wet floor
B. pushing furniture D. using brake when approaching a road
intersection

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Author: Marilou G. Salas
School/Station: Bayugan Central Elementary School SPED Center
School Division: Bayugan City Division
email address: marilou.salas@deped.gov.ph
Activity 3: Increased or Decreased
Objective: Identify conditions when friction seems to resist motion.
What you need: 3 pencils, powder (gaw-gaw), sandpaper, a block of wood,
long rubber band and thumbtacks.
What to do: Prepare the following materials and do the activity following the
procedures given. Record your observations using the table
below by checking the appropriate cell. Then answer the
questions that follow.

Procedure:
1. Get the block of wood and tack the rubber band to it using a thumbtack.
2. On a plain surface, pull the block of wood at one end of the rubber
band. Observe the motion of the block of wood.
3. Using the same plain surface, place the rough part of the sandpaper
above it. Pull the block of wood over the rough part of the sandpaper.
Observe the motion of the block of wood.
(Note: In the absence of sandpaper, you may use any other rough
surface.)
4. Remove the sandpaper. Then, arrange the three pencils side by side
under the block of wood. Pull it. Observe its motion.
Object/Setup Less More Slow Fast
Friction Friction Motion Motion
Block of wood on a plain
surface
Block of wood on
sandpaper/any rough
surface
Block of wood on top of
three pencils
Guided questions:
1. Based on the data above, from which setup/setups did the object
move faster?
____________________________________________________________
2. In which setup/setups did the object move slowest?
____________________________________________________________
3. What factor made the object moved faster?
____________________________________________________________
4. What factor made the object moved slow?
____________________________________________________________

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Author: Marilou G. Salas
School/Station: Bayugan Central Elementary School SPED Center
School Division: Bayugan City Division
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 5. How does the surface affect the motion of an object? Why?
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Rubrics:
3 – Idea is clearly stated, and reasons are strongly agreeable. Supports
idea with clear and thorough example.
2 – Idea is clearly stated, but the reasons are not strongly agreeable.
Example with explanation is also stated.
1 – Idea is not clear. No example and explanation stated.

Activity 4: How Slow or Fast Can You Go

Objective: Compare how objects move in different surfaces.
What you need:
marble , a piece of chalk or any marker, face towel, bond paper, shiny
wooden floor, or tiled floor, sandpaper (improvised sandpaper using
screened sand glued on a piece of paper)
What to do: Prepare the following materials. Do the activity following the
procedures given and record your observations using the table
below.
Procedure:
1. Using a chalk or any marker, draw a straight line on a plane surface as
the starting point.
2. Get the marble and place it on the starting line.
3. Then let the marble roll until it stops. Observe its motion.
4. Next, place the sandpaper/improvised sandpaper on plain surface.
5. Put the marble over it and let the marble roll. Observe the movement.
6. Using a face towel let the marble roll over it. Observe its motion.
7. Now get the marble and place it over a bond paper. Let it roll again.
Observe its motion.
8. Then get the marble and place it on a shiny wooden floor or tiled floor.
Let it roll over the floor.
9. Record your observations using the table below.

Object How the marble moves on different surfaces

sandpaper

face towel
piece of white bond
paper
tiled floor or shiny
wooden floor
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Author: Marilou G. Salas
School/Station: Bayugan Central Elementary School SPED Center
School Division: Bayugan City Division
email address: marilou.salas@deped.gov.ph
Guided questions:

1. Which surface does the marble moves the fastest?

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2. Which surface does the marble moves the slowest?
______________________________________________
3. After doing the activity, what then is a conclusion?
_____________________________________________

Activity 5: Travel With Me

Objective: Demonstrate ways on how friction affects motion.
What to do:
1. On the first column, draw a car travelling along a cemented road.
2. On the second column, draw a car travelling along a bumpy road.
3. In your drawings, show the direction of the moving car and the force
that opposes its motion.
4. Then complete the paragraph below.

Friction is __________________________________________________.
The smoother the surface is, the less _______________ there will be. The motion
of an object moving along a smooth surface is ____________. The rougher the
surface is, the _______________ is)the friction. So, the motion of an object
moving along a _______________ surface is slow.

Reflection:
We use friction in most of our activities. How important is friction in
our daily lives? Cite some activities when friction is desirable and undesirable.
_____________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________

Rubrics:
3 – Idea is clearly stated, and reasons are strongly agreeable. Supports
idea with clear and thorough example.
2 – Idea is clearly stated, but the reasons are not strongly agreeable.
Example with explanation is also stated.
1 – Idea is not clear. No example and explanation stated.

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Author: Marilou G. Salas
School/Station: Bayugan Central Elementary School SPED Center
School Division: Bayugan City Division
email address: marilou.salas@deped.gov.ph
 email address: marilou.salas@deped.gov.ph
School Division: Bayugan City Division
School/Station: Bayugan Central Elementary School SPED Center
Author: Marilou G. Salas
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Activity 5: Travel With Me
Friction is a force between two bodies which are in contact with each other.
The smoother the surface is, the lesser friction there will be. The motion of an object moving along a
smooth surface is fast. The rougher is the surface, the greater is the friction. So, the motion of an object
moving along a rough surface is slow.
Activity 3: Increased or Decreased
Activity 4: How Slow or Fast Can You Go Guided Questions:
1. Block of wood on a plain surface, block of
1. The marble moved fast in a tiled floor or wood on top of three pencils
shiny wooden floor surface. 2. Block of wood on sandpaper/any rough
2. The marble stopped rolling in a surfaces
sandpaper surface 3. The smooth surface made the object moved
3. Answer may vary::Possible answers- faster.
 the smoother the surface is, the 4. The rough surface made the object moved
lesser friction there will be. slow.
5. The smoother the surface is, the lesser
 The motion of an object
friction there will be, thus the motion of an
moving along a smooth object is fast. The rougher is the surface, the
surface is fast. greater is the friction thus, the motion of an
 The rougher is the surface, object is slow.
the greater is the friction.
Activity 2: Activity 1A: Friction All
Move My Around
Sticky Brain 1. Friction
1. D 2. Rolling Friction
2. C 3. Static Friction
3. B 4. Fluid Friction
4. A 5. Sliding
5. A Activity 1B: Knowing You
6. D More
7. C 1. Static Friction
8. A 2. Rolling Friction
Activity 3: Increased or Decreased 9. B 3. Fluid Friction
10. B 4. Sliding Friction
5. Fluid Friction
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Author: Marilou G. Salas
School/Station: Bayugan Central Elementary School SPED Center
School Division: Bayugan City Division
email address: marilou.salas@deped.gov.ph