Kindergarten · Science · Unit 4 of 5
Push & Pull
Make things move
What your child practises
Telling pushes from pulls, and seeing how a bigger push, an object's shape and its weight change how it moves.
Yukon Curriculum learning standard: Effects of pushes and pulls on movement; changes in motion
Sample questions
A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.
Question 1
You open a drawer toward you. Push or pull?
🗄️- 👐push
- 🪢pull
🪢 pull
Hint: When something comes toward you, it's a pull.
Question 2
Which is the hardest to push?
- 🪨a big rock
- ⚽a ball
- 🪶a feather
🪨 a big rock
Hint: Heavy things need a really big push to move.
Question 3
You reel in a fish. Is that a push or a pull?
🎣- 👐push
- 🪢pull
🪢 pull
Hint: The fish comes toward you. That's a pull!
Question 4
How can you stop a rolling toy car?
🚗- 👀look at it
- ✋put your hand in front
- 👏clap your hands
✋ put your hand in front
Hint: Your hand pushes on the car and makes it stop.
Question 5
Which is easier to push?
- 🚗a toy car
- 🚚a big truck
🚗 a toy car
Hint: Light things are easy to move. Heavy things need a bigger push.
Question 6
Push or pull? Tap a picture, then its basket.
Sort into: 👐 push · 🪢 pull
- 🛎️tap a bell
- 🚗push a toy car
- 🥕pull out a carrot
- 🧦pull on socks
- 🎣reel in a fish
- ⚽kick a ball
👐 push: tap a bell, push a toy car, kick a ball · 🪢 pull: pull out a carrot, pull on socks, reel in a fish
Hint: A push moves something away from you. A pull moves it toward you.