Lesson Four – Moving Cars

This curriculum topic teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to explore and record how a range of different surface materials can affect the movement and speed of toy vehicles when using pushing and pulling forces.
The class can identify and record different vehicles that can move either quickly or slowly when pushed or pulled during an investigation test into a forces and actions.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to explore and record how a range of different surface materials can affect the movement and speed of toy vehicles when using pushing and pulling forces
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe the speed of different vehicles between quick and slow movements and a template to test and record how far an object will move across different surfaces using non-standard measurements.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how a range of different surface materials can affect the movement and speed of toy vehicles when pushed and pulled.
This lesson is part of a curriculum topic scheme of work to get the children to identify, describe and test some of the different pushing and pulling forces that can be used to move a range of objects. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.
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