Subscribe

Kindergarten · Science · Unit 1 of 13

Push & Pull

Make things move

What your child practices

Telling pushes from pulls, and seeing how a bigger push, an object's shape and its weight change how it moves.

Alabama Course of Study content standard: K.1 · how pushes and pulls of different strengths and directions change how far, how fast and which way things move

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. A push moves a thing away from you.
  2. A pull moves a thing toward you.
  3. A bigger push makes a thing go farther.

Example: You open a door toward you. Push or pull? The door comes toward you. Toward you is a pull. Answer: pull

Push & Pull in Alabama

In the Alabama Course of Study, this is unit 1 of 13 in Kindergarten Science, before Make It Work.

Gradelings describes a child's practice on this unit as Beginning, Approaching, Meeting or Exceeding (Four practice steps). That reflects practice, not a report-card mark: the teacher decides the mark.

Source: Alabama State Department of Education (ALSDE)

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    How can you stop a rolling toy car?

    🚗
    • 👀look at it
    • 👏clap your hands
    • ✋put your hand in front

  2. Question 2

    You reel in a fish. Is that a push or a pull?

    🎣
    • 🪢pull
    • 👐push

  3. Question 3

    A ball rolls on a hill. Which way does it go?

    ⛰️
    • ⬆️up
    • ⬇️down

  4. Question 4

    Which one will roll?

    • 📕book
    • 📦box
    • ⚽ball

  5. Question 5

    You kick a ball. Is that a push or a pull?

    ⚽
    • 🪢pull
    • 👐push

  6. Question 6

    Push or pull? Tap a picture, then its basket.

    Sort into: 👐 push · 🪢 pull

    • 🛒push a cart
    • 🥕pull out a carrot
    • 🎣reel in a fish
    • 🛎️tap a bell
    • 🚗push a toy car
    • 🛷pull a sled

More Kindergarten