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Easy Science for Kids: All About Force: Pushing and Pulling
Students will understand that pushes and pulls can have different strengths and directions. Students investigate the effects of these different pushes and pulls.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Trb 3:3 Investigation 1 Push and Pull
Understand the effect of the forces of push and pull on motion.
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Science: Greece: What Are Pushes and Pulls?
Nikos is cleaning up and organizing in his family's theater. He finds out that different movements need different motions; sometimes a push, and sometimes a pull. Help him figure out which force to use.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Save the Stuffed Animal! Push & Pull
Students develop an understanding of the concepts of "push" and "pull" as they "save" stuffed animals from danger using LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT robots. After learning more about the concepts through a robot demonstration, students explore...
Utah Education Network
Uen: Trb 3:3 Investigation 2 Zoom Balls
Third graders will use Zoom Balls to understand how sometimes both forces of push and pull need to be used at the same time.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Trb 3:3 Investigation 4 Collision Zone
Learn how forces of push and pull can change speed or direction.
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Science: Indian Ocean: What Kind of Natural Forces Do We Recognize?
Learn about forces (push or pull), gravity, and friction in this module by training dolphins.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Balance and Motion: Push and Pull
[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.
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Science: Seychelles: What Is a Force?
Cody the tour guide is learning about forces on the island. Try to help him learn about pushing and pulling.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: To Push or Pull, That Is the Question?
In group students will learn to identify pushes and pulls. Students will learn how a push or pull will affect various items. This lesson plan was created as a result of the Girls Engaged in Math and Science University, GEMS-U Project.
SMART Technologies
Smart: May the Forces of Push and Pull Be With You!
Read, brainstorm, drag objects, erase to reveal answers, and move weights on a balance scale to learn about forces, mass, gravity, weight, and balance in this activity created by SMART.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: What Is Force?
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...
University of Colorado
University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Forces and Motion: Basics
See how forces affect various items that are pushed or pulled.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Mn Step: What Makes Things Move?
In this activity, young scholars 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...
Utah STEM Foundation
Utah Stem Action Center: Push or Pull?
This super simple activity for kindergarten-age students requires no materials and can be done inside or outside, or both and explores forces and motion.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Calculating Forces: Lesson 2
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."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Calculating Forces: Lesson 3
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."
The Wonder of Science
The Wonder of Science: K Ps2 1: Pushes, Pulls, and Motion
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.
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Science: Egypt: What Can Forces Do?
A learning module reviewing how much force is needed to push or pull objects. Also learn about the force of gravity.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: How and Where Things Move
Students will understand that objects move in many ways, and it takes a forces (pushing or pulling) to move them.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Watch It Slide!
Students use inclined planes as they recreate the difficult task of raising a monolith of rock to build a pyramid. They compare the push and pull of different-sized blocks up an inclined plane, determine the angle of inclination, and...