Forces & Motion Unit - Grade 3 to 6

19 Videos + 9 Printable Experiments + Scope & Sequence + Cross-curricular Teaching & Project Ideas + Curriculum links & more

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A complete unit of work on forces
designed for Grades 3 to 6.

Help students understand the invisible pushes and pulls that keep the entire world in motion.
Master Newton’s Laws through rocket launches, ziplines, and high-speed hovercrafts.
Engage your students with the physics of spinning, friction and inertia.

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Zipline Engineers 
Gravity in action. Students design and test ziplines, exploring how angles, mass, and tension influence speed and motion in a real-world engineering challenge.  

The Inertia Drop
Can an object stay still while everything around it moves?
Students use a glass and cardboard to see inertia first-hand,
proving that objects want to stay exactly where they are.  

Film Canister Rockets
Explore the power of pressure and thrust. Students use simple chemistry to launch rockets, demonstrating Newton’s Third Law: for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.  

The Phone Book Friction Challenge
Is it possible to pull two interlaced books apart?
Students discover the surprising strength of friction and how surface contact can create a bond stronger than a tug-of-war team.  

DIY Balloon Hovercrafts
Conquer friction! Students build their own hovercrafts to see how a thin layer of air can eliminate resistance, allowing objects to glide effortlessly across the room.  

Marshmallow Towers
Explore the forces of tension and compression. Students become architects to see how force is distributed through a structure to keep it standing—or make it tumble!

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Middle Primary

Focus on guided inquiry. Use the student experiment templates to help learners transition from observation to predicting outcomes and identifying fair test variables.

Key Focus Areas
  • • Predicting & observing
  • • Organising data in tables
  • • Identifying single variables
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Upper Primary

Emphasis on independent investigation and evidence-based analysis. Utilise marking rubrics to assess student ability to justify conclusions and evaluate experiment design.

Key Focus Areas
  • • Analysing complex patterns
  • • Evaluating reliability of results
  • • Cross-curricular project work

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Otional materials to have on-hand include string, a cup, metal washers, cardboard roll, glass, cardboard, marshmallows, spaghetti, masking tape, tissue box, beads, rice, a pencil, PET bottle, 2 phone books or old books that you don't mind using, film canister, vinegar, bicarbonate soda, spoon & water.

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