This unit covers the Physical Sciences strand of the Australian Curriculum for Year 1. In this unit, students will explore the forces used to move everyday objects, through observations and hands-on experiences. Students will investigate how the design of various objects helps to produce stronger pushes and pulls. They will get hands-on experience working with and manipulating materials with a series of fun activities and experiments. Each of the lessons has an accompanying presentation and worksheet for students to complete. The unit culminates with a final assessment where students can demonstrate their understanding of the forces used to move objects.
Describe pushes and pulls in terms of strength and direction and predict the effect of these forces on objectsβ motion and shape
The key concepts in this unit include:
Investigate the force called ‘push’.
Investigate the force called ‘pull’.
Investigate the difference between push and pull.
Observe how forces can be weak or strong.
Understand that gravity is a force that pulls objects to Earth.
Explore different toys from around the world.
Create a toy that uses the push and pull forces.
A Poster shows some of the types of movement This poster shows the different types of movement Β
The five senses posters display each of the five senses along with various items and images related to each individual sense. Β
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This Push presentation has been created to support Lesson 1 of the Push and Pull unit. It allows the teacher to walk students through visual...
This Pull presentation has been created to support Lesson 2 of the Push and Pull unit. It allows the teacher to walk students through visual...
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This Push or Pull presentation has been created to support Lesson 3 of the Push and Pull unit. It allows the teacher to walk students throug...
This Power of Forces presentation has been created to support Lesson 4 of the Push and Pull unit. It allows the teacher to walk students thr...
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This Gravity presentation has been created to support Lesson 5 of the Push and Pull unit. It allows the teacher to walk students through vis...
This Toys from Around the World presentation has been created to support Lesson 6 of the Push and Pull unit. It allows the teacher to walk s...
This simple procedural text is the perfect hands-on activity for your students when learning about the concept of push and pull. It has been...
This worksheet allows students to demonstrate their understanding of different objects that require the push force to move. Β
This title page has been designed to use at the beginning of the Push and Pull unit of work. You may choose to have students paste the ti...
This worksheet allows students to demonstrate their understanding of different objects that require the pull force to move. Β
This worksheet allows students to demonstrate their understanding of the differences between push and pull by cutting and pasting different...
This worksheet has been designed for students to record their observations as they complete various push and pull experiments. Students will...
This worksheet allows students to demonstrate their understanding of gravity and the different objects that will be affected by gravity. Β
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This assessment is designed to be used at the completion of the Push and Pull Science Unit. Students will demonstrate their learning from th...
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