Key Stage 1

Science KS 1 Unit 2E Forces and movement

The work in this unit extends children's understanding of how pushes and pulls affect the movement and shape of objects. Experimental and investigative work focuses on:

• thinking about what is expected to happen.
• making measurements.
• recording and presenting results and deciding whether the results support the prediction.
• deciding whether comparisons are fair.

Children also have opportunities to relate science to the ways in which familiar objects move.

This unit takes approximately 7 hours.

OTHER RESOURCES

• materials such as plasticine or dough
• collection of toy cars and other toys that move
• apparatus for measuring length eg metre sticks or tape measures
• bean bags and/or soft balls
• bricks and pieces of wood/thick card to make ramps
• collection of pictures or video clips showing moving objects
• access, if possible, to large moving apparatus