This Connected Learning Experience explores forces in an Indigenous context.

Description: In this investigation, younger students explore how push/pull forces can be applied to make an object move, in the context of spinning tops. They observe characteristics of successful spinners, and notice how a force is applied to set them in motion, or to make them stop.

Learning intentions

Students will be able to:

• ask questions about, and describe changes to objects and materials
• identify examples of where science is used in people’s daily lives
• predict outcomes of investigations
• use informal measurements to make and compare observations with those of others
• record and represent observations and communicate ideas in a variety of ways
• use discussion to sort information and compare ideas.

New Australian Curriculum Codes: AC9S1U03 (Year 1)