Push, Pull, and Get Things Moving
How the World Works · Test how forces make a rolling object speed up or slow down.
Name: ____________
Date: __________
🎬 First, watch What Are Push and Pull Forces? (SciShow Kids)
🙌 Then try: Ramp Race — Make a ramp with a book and cushions and roll a toy car down it. Change the steepness and surface to feel how force and friction change the speed.
- Predict: faster down a steep ramp or a low one? Write your guess.
- Observe: roll the car three times down each ramp.
- Record: draw how far it travelled and circle the longest roll.
- Find one push and one pull you used at home today and draw them.
💭 Think about it
When you stopped the car with your hand, what was your hand doing to the force?
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