🔬 Science & our world · Ages 6–7 · about 3 weeks

Moving Around

Goal: Describe how animals and things move — roll, run, wriggle, slide, bounce — and how pushes and pulls start, stop and change movement.

For parents: This unit builds on Push and Pull from KG 2. Now your child should explain their thinking: 'It went further because…'

Do together

  1. Animal movements

    You need: Pictures of animals

    Sort animals by how they move: walk, fly, swim, hop, wriggle, slither. Some go in two groups!

  2. Ball bounce test

    You need: Different balls, a tape measure or a wall to mark

    Drop each ball from the same height. Which bounces highest? Measure and record. Why is it a fair test?

  3. Race day

    You need: A stopwatch (a phone is fine)

    Time family races: running, hopping, crawling. Which way of moving is fastest? Record the times.

Talk about it

  • How does a snake move? A fish?
  • Why did that ball bounce higher?
  • How can you stop a rolling ball?

Words to use

  • roll
  • slide
  • bounce
  • wriggle
  • fast
  • slow
  • fair test

Play

  • Gravity Drop
    Forces
  • Position Quest
    Position words
  • Living World
    Living things
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