Lesson Planning

Teaching

• Ask questions and answer them by planning and carrying out a fair test.
• Explore forces and discover that gravity and magnetism can act without contact.

Activities

1. Play a game in teams to explore and show the different ways forces can act in different sports.
2. Actively investigate how some forces can act without contact (gravity and magnetism).
3. Explore magnetism, ask questions and attempt to answer them by planning and carrying out a fair test.
4. Tabulate results and use them to draw conclusions and raise further questions.

Investigation - exploring/classifying and identifying
Investigate how it is forces that make things move (pushes and pulls) and that magnetic forces can move things at a distance without forces touching.

Vocabulary
Forces, pushes, pulls, gravity, contact, magnet, magnetism, fair test, results, table