Unit 1
	1a: Ourselves		1b: Growing plants
	1c: Sorting and using materials		1d: Light and dark
	1e: Pushes and pulls		1f: Sound and hearing

  Unit 1e:

Pushes and Pulls

Observe, describe and compare movements they make and movements of objects in terms of speed or direction; describe how to make a familiar object start moving by pushing or pulling and recognise dangers to themselves in moving objects

Direct2U Lesson Plan
The BBC Science Clips website is used by the teacher to demonstrate what happens when the strength of pushes or pulls is changed.
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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
www.firstschoolyears.com/science/forces/forces.html

Introducing Pushes and Pulls

Hitchams School website www.hitchams.suffolk.sch.uk/toy_forces/

Formula One racing site www.cookeassociates.com 'Lesson One' is about the design of Formula One cars, and 'Lesson Two' is about racing them.

Word Processing
Write simple sentences about forces using a word processor with a word bank.

Websites

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

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