Forces
| Nursery |
• Explore how things work. • Explore and talk about different forces they can feel. • Talk about the differences between materials and changes they notice. |
| Reception |
• Explore the natural world around them. • Describe what they see, hear and feel whilst outside. |
| Year 1 | |
| Year 2 | • Find out how the shapes of solid objects made from some materials can be changed by squashing, bending, twisting and stretching. (Y2 - Uses of everyday materials) |
| Year 3 |
• Compare how things move on different surfaces. • Notice that some forces need contact between two objects, but magnetic forces can act at a distance. • Observe how magnets attract or repel each other and attract some materials and not others. • Compare and group together a variety of everyday materials on the basis of whether they are attracted to a magnet, and identify some magnetic materials. • Describe magnets as having two poles. • Predict whether two magnets will attract or repel each other, depending on which poles are facing. |
| Year 4 | |
| Year 5 |
• Explain that unsupported objects fall towards the Earth because of the force of gravity acting between the Earth and the falling object. • Identify the effects of air resistance, water resistance and friction, that act between moving surfaces. • Recognise that some mechanisms, including levers, pulleys and gears, allow a smaller force to have a greater effect. |
| Year 6 |