Grade 3/4

Inquiry

This term’s Inquiry unit, Smooth Moves provides opportunities for students to develop an understanding of how forces act upon objects on Earth, including direct forces, such as pushes and pulls, as well as forces which act at a distance such as gravity. Through investigating how the available surface area of an object affects the amount of friction an object experiences.

Students explore forces, such as pushes, pulls, friction, gravity and magnetism. They will perform fair test investigations about how the size of a force acting on an object can affect its movement. So far students have designed and tested paper plane prototypes, worked in collaborative learning teams to design games and marble runs that required investigating the direct forces that would impact on movement of the objects.

 

  

"We enjoyed working with our peers".

 

"We shared ideas and problem solved together".

 

Practice makes Progress!