Lesson Planning

Teaching

Understand that forces are pushes and pulls which can make things move, stop or change shape.
Set up and conduct a comparative fair test, record measurements and discuss results.

Activities

Play a game in teams to explore all the different ways forces can act on a variety of everyday objects.
Classify each action as either a push, a pull or both.
Plan and conduct an investigation to compare the amount of force needed to move a toy vehicle on different surfaces making choices about whether to measure push or pull and how to keep it fair.
Evaluate, review and discuss findings (e.g. were predictions correct? Were tests fair?).

Investigation - exploring/classifying and identifying
Ask questions and then investigate how toy vehicles run on different surfaces. Begin to explain in terms of forces.

Vocabulary
Force, push, pull, theory, fair test, investigate, measure