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Kindergarten · Science · Unit 2 of 8

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.

Alaska content standards learning standard: K-PS2-1; K-PS2-2 · how pushes and pulls of different strengths and directions change how 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 Alaska

In the Alaska content standards, this is unit 2 of 8 in Kindergarten Science, after What Living Things Need and before Weather & Seasons.

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: Alaska Department of Education and Early Development

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

    What pushes a kite up into the sky?

    🪁
    • 🌬️the wind
    • 🌙the moon
    • 🧲a magnet

  2. Question 2

    Which one will roll?

    • ⚽ball
    • 📦box
    • 📕book

  3. Question 3

    How can you stop a rolling toy car?

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

  4. Question 4

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

    ⛰️
    • ⬆️up
    • ⬇️down

  5. Question 5

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

    Sort into: 👐 push · 🪢 pull

    • 🛷pull a sled
    • 🛒push a cart
    • 🛎️tap a bell
    • 🚗push a toy car
    • 🥕pull out a carrot
    • 🧦pull on socks

  6. Question 6

    Where will a toy car roll the farthest?

    🚗
    • 🏖️in sand
    • 🟫on a smooth floor
    • 🌿on bumpy grass

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