Unit 2
	2a: Health and growth		2b: Plants and animals in the local environment
	2c: Variation		2d: Grouping and changing materials
	2e: Forces and movement		2f: Using electricity

  Unit 2e:
Forces and Movement

Describe how to use pushes and pulls to make familiar objects speed up, slow down, or change direction or shape; recognise that pushes and pulls are forces; plan a comparison and decide whether it was fair; make measurements of length using standard units and present these in a chart.

Teaching Activities

Direct2U Lesson Plan
The children investigate how the height of a ramp affects the distance travelled by toy cars released from the top. The teacher enters their results into a computer graphing program and presents them as a bar chart. The chart is used to analyse the result and aid explanation.
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Word Processing
Combine picture and text when writing simple sentences about forces..

Sorting Activity
Sort the pictures into pushes and pulls
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Websites

BBC Science Clips	Resources and Activities www.firstschoolyears.com	IWB Activity www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk

IWB Activity www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk	Identifying Forces - IWB Activity www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk