Three-page medium term plan PDF, plus accompanying worksheets and Powerpoint
KS2
Year 3
This six-week forces and magnets Year 3 series of lessons focuses on giving children an understanding of what makes objects move and how.
Plan author Abby King has devised a range of activities for effective and engaging learning using different materials and the character Traction Man from the book of the same name by Mini Grey.
We’ve produced a range of free resources to make delivery of this medium-term plan as easy as possible. Both the plan and the resources are included in this download.
Forces and magnets Year 3 learning objectives
- Understand that forces are pushes and pulls which can make things move, stop or change shape
- Make systematic and careful observations
- Compare how things move on different surfaces
- Set up simple practical inquiries, comparative and fair tests
- Understand that some forces need contact, but magnetic forces can act at a distance
- Observe how magnets 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
- Use results to draw simple conclusions and suggest improvements
- Describe magnets as having two poles
- Describe points on a compass
- Observe how magnets attract or repel each other
- Predict whether magnets will attract or repel each other, depending on which poles are facing
- Report on findings from enquiries, including oral and written explanations, displays, or presentations of results and conclusions
- Record findings using simple scientific language, drawings, labelled diagrams, keys
Abby King has worked in KS1 and 2 and currently teaches at an inner-city primary school in Birmingham.
