Week beg.

Focus

Learning objectives

Children should:

Activity (see lesson plan for more detail)

Learning outcomes

Children

6

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

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

 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

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

Subject: science   (7½ hours per ½ term)Pushes and pulls   Unit 1E           

Theme: Toys

Curriculum links: Literacy, design technology, science, maths,                   

Week beg.

Focus

Learning objectives

Children learn:

Activity (see lesson plan for more detail)

Learning outcomes

Children

6

Physical Processes – Forces and Motion

·     that it is not only ourselves that make things move by pushing and pulling

 ·     to ask questions about what is causing the movement

Read and discuss the story of When the Wind Blew. Blow the different items using a hair dryer.  Introduce the idea that blowing is a push and therefore is a force. Blow air at different speeds onto a washing line of clothes, a pin wheel,– children to say what is making these things move. Watch trees outside if there is a wind and comment on their movement.

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.

Children to blow bubbles, how hard do they have to blow, does the shape of the blower make a difference.

Make own pin wheel to blow.

·    identify the cause of the motion

·    experiment with different techniques to make air move e.g. blowing, hair dryers, hand held fans

Resources:

Story ‘When the wind blew’ by Pat Hutchins, clothes on line, pin wheels, sheet of card, bubbles and blowers, hair dryer, hand held fans, pictures of toys that need moving air to work,  instructions to make a pin wheel, recording sheet – things needing air to move (Click on words underlined to go to that resource or lesson plan)

Points to note:

If there are lines of washing near by, look at those.

Safety aspect of using hairdryers and fans