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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.

Maine Learning Results 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 Maine

In the Maine Learning Results, 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: Maine 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 is easier to push?

    • 🚚a big truck
    • 🚗a toy car

  2. Question 2

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

    🎣
    • 🪢pull
    • 👐push

  3. Question 3

    Which push will make the ball go farther?

    ⚽
    • 💪a big push
    • 🤏a tiny push

  4. Question 4

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

    Sort into: 👐 push · 🪢 pull

    • 🛎️tap a bell
    • 🛒push a cart
    • 🧦pull on socks
    • 🛷pull a sled
    • 🎣reel in a fish
    • 🚗push a toy car

  5. Question 5

    You open a drawer toward you. Push or pull?

    🗄️
    • 👐push
    • 🪢pull

  6. Question 6

    Which one will roll?

    • 📦box
    • ⚽ball
    • 📕book

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