Rides and Technology Teachers' Notes

Science

Disneyland Paris offers countless opportunities for scientific thinking and exploring the creative application of scientific ideas.

By using the Rides and Technology Workbook whilst in the Resort, students will experience science outside the school environment. Specifically, the Workbook's "Roller Coaster Science Project" will help students learn more about:

• Forces and friction
• Speed
• Pressure
• Velocity
• Acceleration and deceleration
• Gravity
• Newton's Laws of Motion

Curriculum Links

This workbook has been developed for schools to meet:

• Science Programme of Study for key stage 3 Key Concepts (National Curriculum for England and Wales)

• 3.1 Energy, electricity and forces

• Forces are interactions between objects and can affect their shape and motion
• Electric current in circuits can produce a variety of effects

• Scottish 5-14 National Guidelines, Environmental Studies: Science

• Energy and forces