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:
This online teaching resource helps teach young students about forces.
The resource discusses students' understandings of forces and motion (i.e., pushes and pulls) and also details learning tasks that will engage students when investigating these concepts.
There are also direct references to academic research on science education for younger primary students.
New Australian Curriculum Code: AC9S1U03 (Year 1)
This downloadable resource helps teach younger students about the physical world.
The resource outlines a number of practical activities and challenges designed to support and engage Foundation to Year 2 students when exploring the physical world.
This inquiry-based teaching resource guide provides advice and ideas on how to engage and challenge the thinking of students.
It also outlines a range of practical tasks on dealing with motion, magnetism, sound, light and simple machines.
This unit of work introduces younger students to the concept of forces.
The resource details ways of engaging younger students when learning about forces by investigating moving toys, floating and sinking, air and flight.
It provides advice and details activities designed to involve students in investigating how a push or a pull moves an object.
It includes 8 lesson plans, student worksheets and other resources that will support its implementation.
New Australian Curriculum Codes: AC9S1U03 (Year 1)
This online resource can be used to teach an early understanding of forces.
This is a unit of work that gives ideas for engaging young students when exploring and developing their understandings of how a push and pull influences the way in which an object moves or changes shape.
New Australian Curriculum Codes: AC9S1U03 (Year 1)
