This resource provides information and activities to support reception to year 2 students learning of physical sciences and chemical sciences. Students will be exposed to the following learnings:
- forces affect how an object moves or changes shape
- forces affect materials in different ways
- making predictions on how certain objects will react when a force is applied
- carrying out an investigation based on their predictions.
Structure and features
The website contains:
- introduction
- teacher's notes
- background information
- learning sheets.
The teacher's notes have:
- introduction of learning
- main activity
- landing the learning (at the end of the session).
Teacher notes
This learning sequence provides opportunities for learning in physical sciences 'a push or a pull affects how an object moves or changes shape' and chemical sciences 'everyday materials can be physically changed in a variety of ways'. This learning should be attempted after some initial learning of forces.
The learning sheets provide opportunities for students to record their thinking and the results they observe from the investigations.
