Motion, position and forces
Answers are for parents and teachers.
1
List three vehicles. For each, write what makes it start moving and what makes it stop.
Examples: car – engine, brakes; bicycle – pedalling pushes, brakes; train – engine, brakes.
2
Choose a reference point at home (the front door). Say where the sofa, the table and the TV are compared with it.
Answers differ, e.g. the sofa is 3 steps from the front door.
3
A toy car is 1 m from the wall, then 5 m from the wall. Write how far it moved.
5 − 1 = 4 m.
4
Draw a person pulling a wagon. Draw an arrow for the pull. Which way does it point?
The arrow points in the direction the person pulls.
5
Explain to someone at home why a dropped pencil falls. Use the word gravity.
Gravity pulls the pencil toward the centre of the Earth.