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1st grade · Science · Unit 1 of 7

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.

Arizona Academic Standards learning standard: 1.P3U1.3 · how equal forces balance objects and unequal forces make them 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. Push harder to make a thing go farther or higher.

Example: You pull a sled. Is that a push or a pull? The sled comes along behind you, toward you. Answer: pull

Push & Pull in Arizona

In the Arizona Academic Standards, this is unit 1 of 7 in 1st grade Science, before Signals Far Away.

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: Arizona Department of Education

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

    Which one will roll?

    • ⚽ball
    • 📦box
    • 📕book

  2. Question 2

    You open a drawer toward you. Push or pull?

    🗄️
    • 🪢pull
    • 👐push

  3. Question 3

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

    Sort into: 👐 push · 🪢 pull

    • 🚗push a toy car
    • 🎣reel in a fish
    • 🥕pull out a carrot
    • 🧦pull on socks
    • 🛒push a cart
    • ⚽kick a ball

  4. Question 4

    Which one will slide, not roll?

    • ⚽ball
    • 📦box
    • 🍊orange

  5. Question 5

    How can you stop a rolling toy car?

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

  6. Question 6

    Which is easier to push?

    • 🚗a toy car
    • 🚚a big truck

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