Name: Elena M.

Calderon Course: MAEd-Science (1st Year)

Submitted to: Rudy D. Mariano Jr

Teaching science offers students to opportunity to increase their overall understanding of how and why
things work. Teaching physics involves more than writing formulas on a chalkboard. It involves helping
students to see the world in a new way.

As a teacher, these are the three topics that helps students in many students. These improve not only
their academic skills but also their imagination and understanding with the real world.

1. GRAVITY

Gravity is said to be an invisible force that pulls objects toward each other. Earth's gravity is what
keeps you on the ground and what makes things fall. Anything that has mass also has gravity.

Gravity is very important to us. We could not live on Earth without it. The sun's gravity keeps Earth in
orbit around it, keeping us at a comfortable distance to enjoy the sun's light and warmth. It holds down our
atmosphere and the air we need to breathe.

Without gravity, humans and other objects would become weightless. Ever see movies where
astronauts are fumbling around trying to plant their country's flag on the moon? The reason they bounce up
and down is that the moon is much smaller than, and therefore has much less gravity than, Earth. Same goes
for when we see astronauts floating around weightless in their space crafts: The farther they get from Earth,
the less the planet's gravity pulls them to the ground.

Gravity reminds us to always keep our feet on the ground. That when God bless us and make us
successful in everything, we must stay humble because whatever comes up, comes down.

2. NEWTON’S LAWS OF MOTION

Newton’s laws of motion, three statements describing the relations between the forces acting on a
body and the motion of the body, first formulated by English physicist and mathematician Isaac Newton, which
are the foundation of classical mechanics.

A. Newton's First Law of Motion: The Law of Inertia

Newton’s first law states that if a body is at rest or moving at a constant speed in a straight line, it will
remain at rest or keep moving in a straight line at constant speed unless it is acted upon by a force. For
example, Consider a passenger standing on a bus that is running at a constant speed along a straight
highway. When the driver suddenly steps on the brakes, the passenger is thrown forward. According to
Newton's first law of motion, the passenger maintains his state of constant speed unless acted upon by an
external force. To avoid being thrown forward, the passenger tries to grasp a part of the bus to hold him back.

B. Newton's Second Law of Motion (Law of Mass and Acceleration)

The second of Newton's three laws of motion is also known as the law of mass and acceleration. .
Riding your bicycle is a good example of this law of motion at work. Your bicycle is the mass. Your leg muscles
pushing on the pedals of your bicycle are the force. When you push on the pedals, your bicycle accelerates.
You are increasing the speed of the bicycle by applying force to the pedals. Newton's Second Law also says
that the greater the mass of the object being accelerated, the greater the amount of force needed to accelerate
the object. Say you have two identical bicycles that each have a basket. One bicycle has an empty basket.
One bicycle has a basket full of bricks. If you try to ride each bicycle and you push on the pedals with the exact
same strength, you will be able to accelerate the bike with the empty basket

C. Newton's Third Law of Motion: Law of Interaction

Newton's third law of motion builds further on the first and second laws of motion. The third law of
motion states that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. This can be observed both in
objects at rest and those that are accelerating. For example, a resting box pushes down on the ground due to
a gravitational force. In reaction to this, the ground presses back up, what we call a "normal force," at an equal
magnitude. These forces balance so no acceleration of the box occurs.

Newton's law are very important because they tie into almost everything we see in everyday life. These
laws tell us exactly how things move or sit still, like why you don't float out of bed or fall through the floor of
your house. Newton's laws control how cars work, how water flows, how buildings don't fall down, and
basically how everything around us moves.

3. SCALARS AND VECTORS

Vectors are physical quantities that require both magnitude and direction. Examples of scalars
include height, mass, area, and volume. Examples of vectors include displacement, velocity, and
acceleration.
It is important the students are aware of the differences between vector and scalar
properties; that being that vectors have a direction. Once they can identify which quantities are which
they need to be able to resolve vectors into their two components at right angles, add them and then
move on to more complicated calculations involving perpendicular vectors.

Some students, naturally, will struggle with the maths of this, and some may also find
visualising this concept difficult. There is some work that can be done to help visualise, including
making arrows to represent vectors and arranging these appropriately.

In teaching our students we must let them know that vectors have many real-life applications,
including situations involving force or velocity. For example, consider the forces acting on a boat
crossing a river. The boat’s motor generates a force in one direction, and the current of the river
generates a force in another direction. Both forces are vectors. We must take both the magnitude
and direction of each force into account if we want to know where the boat will go.