3 free forces & motion resources for Year 3: 3 worksheets. Answers included.
Pushes and pulls, friction, gravity and simple machines. In Year 3, By Year 3, students add and subtract two-digit numbers, skip count, meet the 2, 5 and 10 times tables and work with halves and quarters.
Students will practise: identifying pushes and pulls; describing what forces can do to objects; comparing small and big pushes; planning a fair test; describing ways objects move; linking an object's shape to how it moves; sorting objects by movement; predicting and testing.
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Students learn that a force is a push or a pull, sort everyday actions into pushes and pulls, see how forces can start, stop, speed up or…
Children describe different ways objects move — rolling, sliding, spinning and bouncing — find out how an object's shape changes the way…
Children investigate how the steepness of a ramp changes how fast and how far a toy car rolls, make a prediction, keep the test fair, read…
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Pushes and pulls, friction, gravity and simple machines. At Year 3, our resources focus on: identifying pushes and pulls; describing what forces can do to objects; comparing small and big pushes; planning a fair test.
Start with the Level 1 or Level 2 worksheet, then move up a level. Finish with the topic test if there is one.
Yes — every worksheet has an answer sheet. Maths answer sheets show the working; English tasks include model answers or success criteria.
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