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Physical Processes – Forces and Motion
It is not only ourselves that make things move by pushing |
P1(i)
encounter activities
P1(ii)
show
emerging awareness of experience
P2(i)
react to new experiences
P2(ii)
recognise familiar objects
P3(i)
request activities
P3(ii)
anticipate known events
P4
know that certain actions produce predictable results
P5
answer simple scientific questions
P6
begin to predict
P7
observe simple properties of movement
P8
explore the similarities in features of objects
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Read
and discuss the story of When the Wind Blew.
Introduce the idea that blowing is a push and therefore
is a
force.
What
does the wind feel like? Blow air at different
speeds onto the children.
Take
turns, to run across the playground with a large
sheet of card held in front of them. What did they notice?
List
other things that need wind to move. Show toys
that
need a blow/air to work
Bubbles blowers and bubble pipes - find out how
hard
they need to blow to make a bubble. Does the
shape of the blower change the shape of the bubble?
Play
Blow Football using straws and paper balls or ping pong ball.
Toy
pinwheels - a selection, including some home made ones. Can they make
the windmill change direction? Do the windmills stop spinning after
children stop blowing?
Use
electric fan / hairdryer to make things move.
Make
a toy pinwheel
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P1(i)
feel
what it is like to be pulled and to have air blown on them
P1(ii)
make
a facial expression as air is blown onto their face
P2(i)
vocalise / gesture /watch when objects are blowing about the room
P2(ii)
become excited knowing that a
bubble comes from the blower
P3(i)
reach out for the bubbles
P3(ii)
screw up their face when the bubble approaches
P4
blow the windmill and it turns
P5
answer the question ‘how do we make it move?’ – by blowing it.
P6 say that the windmill will stop moving
if they stop blowing
P7
blow harder to make the ping pong ball move faster / further
P8
find out how to move a variety of objects by a blowing movement |
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Resources:
Story ‘When the wind Blew’,
symbols/ pictures of things
that blew in the story1
and 2,
sheet of card, bubbles, blowers, ping pong balls, straws, toy pinwheels,
electric fan, hair drier,
symbols / pictures of air toys,
instructions to make pinwheel
(Click
on words underlined to go to that resource or lesson plan) |
Points to note:
Safety in using hairdryers and fans
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