Y3/4 (B): Forces and space: Forces and magnets

Exploring contact and non-contact forces, including friction and magnetism and their effects.

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Lessons

Y3/4: Lesson 1: Pushes, pulls and twists

Y3/4: Lesson 2: Friction

Y3/4: Lesson 3: Investigating friction

Y3/4: Lesson 4: Magnets

Y3/4: Lesson 5: Investigating magnet strength

Y3/4: Lesson 6: Uses of magnets

Key skills

  • Beginning to
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Key knowledge

To know:

  • Examples of contact
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Key vocabulary

attract

contact force

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Knowledge organiser – Science Y3/4 (B): Forces and space: Forces and magnets

Aimed at pupils, two pages providing key facts and definitions from the mixed-age unit ‘Forces and magnets’.

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Vocabulary display – Science Y3/4 (B): Forces and space: Forces and magnets

A display version of the key vocabulary from the mixed-age unit 'Forces and magnets'.

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