A 5-day lesson plan where children explore movement, forces like push and pull, and gravity. Hands-on activities include marble painting, ramp experiments, and dramatic play.
What children learn
- Recognise movement as a change in position and identify moving things in the environment.
- Distinguish animate objects that move themselves from inanimate objects that require force.
- Understand that force can start, stop, speed up, slow down, or redirect an object.
- Investigate push and pull through balls, ramps, barriers, boxes, and sorting tasks.
- Explore magnetic, electrostatic, gravitational, and frictional forces through demonstrations.
Key activities
- Creating a Things That Move Collage from newspapers and magazines
- Making Marble Paintings by tilting boxes to move paint-covered marbles
- Sorting animate and inanimate objects and staging a Garage dramatic-play area
- Experimenting with Motion using balls, barriers, toy cars, and cardboard ramps
- Sorting objects by Push and Pull and playing movement games
- Testing magnetic, electrostatic, gravitational, and frictional forces at exploration trays
You’ll need
balls, chart paper and picture cards, newspapers and magazines, scissors and glue, marbles and paint, toy cars, books and cardboard, boxes, hula hoops, magnets and pins, paper and rulers
Structure: 5 days; each day: Thought of the Day, Tuning-in Time, Warm-up, Social Studies/Science, Creative Learning, English, Maths