Activities & Lessons
Discovery Education
Students will work in groups to build catapults out of everyday objects; and demonstrate their understanding of motion and forces by using the catapults to launch objects.
Force & Motion of Objects
The students will recognize push and pull forces, demonstrate forces of motion through games, differentiate between straight, circular and back
and forth motions, find objects that demonstrate these motions, recognize these motions in everyday things such as toys and playground activities, explain how forces change the movement of objects.
Force, Motion, and Weight
In this lesson, the student will make observations and conduct investigations to build an understanding of balance, motion, and weighing objects.
Push & Pull
In this online lesson, students will recognize different types of movement and causes that may affect that movement and know that pushes and pulls are types of forces.
Students will work in groups to build catapults out of everyday objects; and demonstrate their understanding of motion and forces by using the catapults to launch objects.
Force & Motion of Objects
The students will recognize push and pull forces, demonstrate forces of motion through games, differentiate between straight, circular and back
and forth motions, find objects that demonstrate these motions, recognize these motions in everyday things such as toys and playground activities, explain how forces change the movement of objects.
Force, Motion, and Weight
In this lesson, the student will make observations and conduct investigations to build an understanding of balance, motion, and weighing objects.
Push & Pull
In this online lesson, students will recognize different types of movement and causes that may affect that movement and know that pushes and pulls are types of forces.
Websites for Kids
Forces & Movement - BBC
This site is visually appealing to students and user friendly for them as well. The site is broken down into age groups and for the 6-7 age group, there
are four categories filled with educational information and activities. The categories are: Magnets and Springs, Using Electricity, and Push and Pull.
Push & Pull - BBC
This site provides activities with directions and labels to help students learn. There are different age group options that could be used in the same classroom as students are on different levels. There is a quiz option to help test students' knowledge of what they learned and practiced on this website.
Force & Motion
This is a great website for elementary school science in general. There is a particular section on force, motion, and matter and is classified by grade and level. This site provides blueprint skills, lesson plans, extra resources, interactive websites for students, and worksheets.
This site is visually appealing to students and user friendly for them as well. The site is broken down into age groups and for the 6-7 age group, there
are four categories filled with educational information and activities. The categories are: Magnets and Springs, Using Electricity, and Push and Pull.
Push & Pull - BBC
This site provides activities with directions and labels to help students learn. There are different age group options that could be used in the same classroom as students are on different levels. There is a quiz option to help test students' knowledge of what they learned and practiced on this website.
Force & Motion
This is a great website for elementary school science in general. There is a particular section on force, motion, and matter and is classified by grade and level. This site provides blueprint skills, lesson plans, extra resources, interactive websites for students, and worksheets.
Books
Forces Make Things Move By Kimberly Brubaker Bradley, Illus. by Paul Meisel. 2005. 40p. Collins, (978-0064452144). Gr. 1-3.
Part of the Read and Find Out Science 2 series, simple language and humorous illustrations show how forces make things move, prevent them from starting to move, and stop them from moving.
Part of the Read and Find Out Science 2 series, simple language and humorous illustrations show how forces make things move, prevent them from starting to move, and stop them from moving.
Move It!: Motion, Forces and You By Adrienne Mason, Illus. by Claudia Davila. 2005. 32p. Kids Can Press, (978-1553377597). Gr. K-2.
Developed with the cooperation of a science consultant, this book in the Primary Physical Science series is a tool to teach the physical sciences to young children. Move It! follows science curricula and is loaded with surprising facts and hands-on activities designed to hold young readers' interest and tap into their fascination with the everyday world. Move It! explores the physics of why and how things move.
Developed with the cooperation of a science consultant, this book in the Primary Physical Science series is a tool to teach the physical sciences to young children. Move It! follows science curricula and is loaded with surprising facts and hands-on activities designed to hold young readers' interest and tap into their fascination with the everyday world. Move It! explores the physics of why and how things move.
Energy Makes Things Happen By Kimberly Brubaker Bradly, Illus. by Paul Meisel. 2002. 40p. Collins, (978-0064452137). Gr. 1-3.
This worthy title uses familiar examples and a clear focus to introduce basic scientific concepts. An opening scene shows children playing ball, flying kites, and cooking and eating hot dogs, with a rock on a hill in the background. Bradley explains that inherent in the scenarios are different kinds of energy. She then tells how the kite uses the wind, the rock converts stored energy into moving energy, and so on, and discusses how the greatest source of power, the sun, makes food, fossil fuels, light, heat, and wind.
This worthy title uses familiar examples and a clear focus to introduce basic scientific concepts. An opening scene shows children playing ball, flying kites, and cooking and eating hot dogs, with a rock on a hill in the background. Bradley explains that inherent in the scenarios are different kinds of energy. She then tells how the kite uses the wind, the rock converts stored energy into moving energy, and so on, and discusses how the greatest source of power, the sun, makes food, fossil fuels, light, heat, and wind.
Assessments
Forces Test - Rockingham Country Public Schools
This is a test developed and used by Rockingham Country Public Schools in Virginia. The assessment asks students to identify forces of push or pull, and thencircle, straight, u and down, curved, and back and forth by viewing illustrations.
This is a test developed and used by Rockingham Country Public Schools in Virginia. The assessment asks students to identify forces of push or pull, and thencircle, straight, u and down, curved, and back and forth by viewing illustrations.