Lesson One – Moving Things

This curriculum topic teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to identify, sort and record how to move a range of different things by using the matching pushing and pulling forces to produce movements.
The class can practise labelling a selection of different toys brought from home to indicate if they can be moved using a push or pull action.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to identify, sort and record how to move a range of different things by using the matching pushing and pulling forces to produce movements
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to explain how to use push and pull forces to move different objects, a set of cards to label different objects that can be found around the school that can be moved by pushing and pulling and a template to list things that move when using different forces.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to move a range of different things by using different pushing and pulling forces.
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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