TOY NAME: Barrack Track

PICTURE OF
TOY:

OBJECTIVE OF To foster the cognitive and physical domain in children.

TOY: Metacognition, "the ability to think about thinking", is another
important cognitive skill that develops during early childhood.
Between ages 2 and 5 years, young children realize that they use their
brains to think. However, their understanding of how a brain works is
rather simplistic; a brain is a simply a container (much like a toy box)
where thoughts and memories are stored. By ages 5 to 7 years,
children realize they can actively control their brains, and influence
their ability to process and to accomplish mental tasks. As a result,
they start to develop and choose specific strategies for approaching a
given learning task to drive a car in a track, monitor their
comprehension of information on the position of obstacles, and
evaluate their progress toward completing the track successfully.
PROCEDURE/ When the switch is turned ON the chemical energy in the battery
WHAT produced the electrical energy to rotate the board. At the same time,
HAPPENED/ the friction force is produced when the two magnets between the
PHENOMENAL surfaces of the board to allow the motion of the car being driven.
EXPLANATION
SCIENCE Electrical Energy
DEFINITION: Electrical energy is a form of energy resulting from the flow of
electric charge. Energy is the ability to do work or apply force to move
an object. In the case of electrical energy, the force is electrical
attraction or repulsion between charged particles.
Kinetic Energy
Kinetic energy is the energy an object possesses due to its motion. An
object of mass m moving at velocity v has a kinetic energy equal to
½mv2.
Magnetism
The physical phenomena arising from the force caused by magnets,
objects that produce fields that attract or repel other objects. The
magnets show that all magnets have two poles: One is labelled north
(N) and the other is labelled south (S). Magnetic poles repel if they are
alike (both N and both S), they attract if they are opposite (one N and
the other S).
 Friction Force
The most significant phenomena in the physical world where the
surface resistance to relative motion; the rubbing of the surface of one
body against that of another
VARIABLE 1: Conservation of energy Situation 1
The chemical energy in the Reduce the voltage of the battery
battery produce an electrical supply by using
energy when connected in a - 4 pieces of 1.5 volt battery
circuit. The electrical energy - 3 pieces of 1.5 volt battery
produce by the battery allow - 2 pieces of 1.5 volt battery
the 12V DC motor to rotate - 1 pieces of 1.5 volt battery
the board. The electrical
energy produce were
conserve into kinetic energy
that rotates the board.
Question:
Does the speed of the rotation
will change when different
voltage of battery is use?
Challenges:
Change the battery voltage.

VARIABLE 2: Magnetism and Frictional Situation 1

Force Increasing the power of magnet
Magnetism produced by the
used of the two magnets
make the car stick to the
board. This create the
frictional force
Question:
What happened to the speed
of car’s motion?
Challenges:
Use 2 pieces of magnet

TEXT BOOK VARIABLE 1: Conservation of energy

EXAMPLE:

VARIABLE 2: Magnetism and Frictional Force

REAL LIFE 1. Formula 1 Racing Cars
APPLICATION: 2. Travelling spacecraft
3. Turbine
4. Spectrometer
5. Magnetic Resonance Image (MRI) machines
6. Bell Ringer
7. Scrap Yard

CONCLUSION: By playing with “Barrack Track” students are able to

1. Understand the concept of conservation of energy; energy cannot
be produce or destroy but can be conserve into different form.
2. Understand the concept of magnetism, the attraction repulsion of
magnet. Besides, understand the concept of magnetic field and
magnetic strength.
3. Understand the concept of frictional force; high frictional force
allows a moving object to decrease in speed and stop.

REFERENCES: - Tipler, P.A., Mosca, G, Physics for Scientists and Engineers with
Modern Physics, 6th ed. New York: W.H. Freeman and Company
(2008)
- SPT 11-14 Electricity & magnetism David Sang (ed., 2011)
Teaching secondary physics ASE / Hodder