Teaching students about pushes, pulls, and motion? Use this site to plan lessons for students to conduct investigations to compare the effects on the motion of an object when pushes or pulls come from different directions or strengths.

Learn why every force is a push or a pull.

Students will understand that pushes and pulls can have different strengths and directions. Students investigate the effects of these different pushes and pulls.

Third graders will sort simple machines according to an applied force --push or a pull.

Learn about forces (push or pull), gravity, and friction in this module by training dolphins.

Children discuss, observe, and play with equipment used in familiar sports, and then brainstorm a list of familiar sports and the equipment used in the sports. They discuss how the equipment is used, and predict how it is put into motion...

Through hands-on activities, this lesson will show students that a force is a push or a pull and forces cause changes in motion. Included are a minute-by-minute lesson plan, activities, and teacher discussion points and questions.

Learn about pushing and pulling.

Students are asked to create a bungee jump that will protect a hard-boiled egg from breaking. A force sensor is needed to measure the push/pull forces on the egg. Data is inserted into force-time graphs. After completing three...

Explore the forces at work when pulling against a cart, and pushing a refrigerator, crate, or person. Create an applied force and see how it makes objects move. Change friction and see how it affects the motion of objects.

See how forces affect various items that are pushed or pulled.

Understand the effect of the forces of push and pull on motion.

Compare the forces of pushing and pulling.

You have probably heard the word "force" before in conversations. Here are a few examples: "the rocket had a lot of force at blast off" or "the force of the storm blew the roof off the building." What is force? Force is defined as a push...

A learning module reviewing how much force is needed to push or pull objects. Also learn about the force of gravity.

Join Tony as he discovers the effects of forces on all sorts of pizzeria objects.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will learn what balance, force, push and pull are. There are video clips and interactive practice of these vocabulary words and concepts.

In this activity, students will learn about push and pull forces that make things move. They will also practice using position words to describe location. To learn about forces, they will move objects, observe the movement of objects and...

This tutorial is to introduce students to the concept of forces. Tutorial includes activities, content and teacher notes.

Students will understand that objects move in many ways, and it takes a forces (pushing or pulling) to move them.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Featurea the definition of combining forces: Pulling down and pushing up, forces acting in opposite directions, forces acting in the same direction.

This lesson will explain how to calculate net forces on an object being pushed or pulled. It is 2 of 4 in the series titled "Calculating Forces."

This lesson will explain how to calculate net forces on an object being pushed or pulled. It is 3 of 4 in the series titled "Calculating Forces."

Third graders will use Zoom Balls to understand how sometimes both forces of push and pull need to be used at the same time.