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  • 1 Universiti Teknologi MARA
Jurnal Inovasi Malaysia, 2018;2(1):61-74.
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Abstract

Overthe last few years,students have had difficultiesin drawing a free body force diagram that isthe firststep in solving Newton’s Law questions. Hence, a teaching tool has been developed by emphasizing a sketching technique and drawing of a free body diagram. The main objective of this project is to improve the skills of students in drawing free body diagrams and to help studentsfor a better understanding in solving the problemsin Newton’s Law topic. ADDIE model has been used as a guideline for developing thistool. A preliminary study on the usage ofNewton’s Free Body Diagram (FBD) Ruler upon students of Diploma in Food Technology (AS116)shown that, 81.25% of them were able to sketch and draw the free body diagram correctly. This shows that the use of the Newton’s Free Body Diagram (FBD) Ruler as a teaching tool is very effective and practical. Besides, the failure rate percentage has been reported decreases from 18.00% (Sem 2 2016/2017) to 12.67% (Sem 1 2017/2018) after the implementation. This is proven that the use of teaching tools during teaching and learning process can increase student’s attraction and understanding as well as to create a variety of new teaching methods for educators to be implemented in the classroom.