Forces Teaching Resources
A collection of forces related educational resources to use in your classroom. Use the Forces Teaching Resource Pack to provide your students with all of the information and activities they need to learn about magnetism, gravity, buoyancy, friction and push and pull forces. Also provided are posters to display in your classroom, worksheets, activities, experiments and vocabulary word wall cards to assist students in learning the associated content vocabulary.
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Push and Pull Sorting Activity
A sorting activity to help students identify actions that use push and pull.
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Science Themed Colourful Page Borders
A set of ten science themed page borders for use as decoration or classroom group posters.
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Force and Speed - The Relationship Between Force and the Resulting Speed of an Object PowerPoint
A teaching presentation in which the students observe qualitatively how speed is affected by the size of a force.
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Science Experiment - Speed Racer
A science investigation in which the students investigate how to use thrust force to increase the speed of a model car.
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Gravity PowerPoint
This teaching presentation introduces gravity as a force.
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Push and Pull Forces PowerPoint
This teaching presentation introduces the students to push and pull forces.
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Force Knowledge Check
A worksheet used to check the students’ knowledge of forces.
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Gravity Investigation PowerPoint
This teaching presentation introduces the force of gravity and using air resistance to counteract this force.
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Which Force Is That? Worksheet
A group of worksheets to use when revising common forces.
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Exploring With Magnets Task
Document whether objects are magnetic or non-magnetic with this nifty science worksheet.
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Push and Pull - Water Investigation
A hands-on investigation task that allows students to work directly with the forces they have been learning.
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Push and Pull Forces - Title Poster
A poster to use on your Push and Pull Forces display board.
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Push and Pull - Teaching Resource Pack
A resource pack containing a range of posters, worksheets and activities to use when teaching your class about forces, specifically push and pull.
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Electrostatic Force Video – Flying Spiders
Explore electrostatic forces with your students using this science demonstration video perfect for your Year 5 science unit!
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Push and Pull Unit Plan
This Physical Sciences unit investigates contact and non-contact forces. Demonstrations and experimental procedures are explored with particular attention given to the scientific method.
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What Are Forces? Unit Plan
This Science unit addresses the concept of forces.
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Push It - Introducing the Different Types of Force
A 60 minute lesson in which students are introduced to the different types of force.
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Force and Speed - The Relationship Between Force and the Resulting Speed of an Object
A 60 minute lesson designed to investigate the relationship between force and the resulting speed of an object.
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Opposites Attract - Understanding the Non-contact Force of Magnetism
A 60 minute lesson in which the students investigate magnetism and the properties of its associated force.
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There's a Fraction Too Much Friction - Science Investigation
A 60 minute lesson in which the students investigate how moving objects in different ways affects the strength of friction force.
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Throwing, Dropping, Bouncing, Rolling - Science Investigation
A 60 minute lesson in which the students investigate the forces involved in throwing, dropping, bouncing, and rolling, and how they affect an object.
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Forces Knowledge Check
An assessment task in which students will demonstrate an understanding of contact and non-contact forces.
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Electric Avenue - The Non-Contact Force of Electrostatics
A 60 minute lesson in which the students investigate electrostatics and the properties of its associated force.
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Force Knowledge Check
An assessment task in which students will demonstrate an understanding of push and pull forces.
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Forces Revision
A 60 minute lesson in which students will revise the forces covered in the unit.
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Gravity Investigation
A 60 minute lesson in which students will explore the force of gravity.
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Gravity
A 60 minute lesson in which students will explore the force of gravity.
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Whatever Floats Your Boat
A 60 minute lesson in which students will explore the force of buoyancy.
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The Force of Friction
A 60 minute lesson in which students will explore the force of friction.
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Forces in Play
A 60 minute lesson in which students will investigate push and push forces at work in the playground.
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Push and Pull Forces
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Balloon Rocket Experiment
A 60 minute lesson in which students will investigate how energy makes things move.