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🔬 Kindergarten · ScienceK-PS2-1Unit 2: Pushes & pulls

Harder pushes, farther rolls

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🎯 Objective: Students test how the strength of a push changes how far a ball rolls.

Lesson outline

  1. Predict.
  2. Roll balls with soft and hard pushes.
  3. Measure with blocks.
  4. Exit: what happened with a harder push?

Lesson 2 of 4 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

K-PS2-1

Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), Kindergarten — typical US unit order

🏁 Unit goals

  • Plan investigations about the strength and direction of pushes and pulls
  • Design a solution to change an object’s speed or direction

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

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More lessons in “Pushes & pulls”

  1. Push or pull?
  2. Harder pushes, farther rolls
  3. Changing direction
  4. Design a ramp

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