Learn all about force and motion through hands-on science activities! First, set up your science center with all of the force and motion vocabulary cards you will need, each with photographs to bring the words to life.

Next, set up a ramp exploration center. One ramp will have different textures (cardboard, bubble wrap, and felt) for students to explore friction, while the other set of ramps will be low, medium, and high for kids to explore gravity. There are even ribbons to award 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners to work on those ordinal numbers.

The next force to explore is magnets! First, hunt around the room to find objects that are magnetic using magnetic wands and draw pictures of the items you find. Then, sort small magnetic and non-magnetic items onto the sorting mat. Next, find your way through the magnet mazes by using a magnet under a table or box to move through the maze on the top. Finally, try and make a car move without touching it (by repelling magnets).

Following that, set up a push or pull sorting activity using the mats provided. And then, sort objects by whether they roll or slide.

Finally, learn all about directions through movement cards that can be done with scarves, ribbons, or even magic wands. Last, play an escape game that focuses on up, down, left, and right (all color-coded to make this easy for all learners).

Your little ones won't even realize that they are learning with all of these hands-on force and motion science activities!

Here's what you'll get (in color):

• force and motion vocabulary cards (force, motion, friction, gravity, push, pull, magnet, bounce, back, forth, up, down, around, zigzag, roll, slide)
• Directions poster
• Directions: Can you escape? grid game with spinners
• 6 directional cards
• Magnetic? sorting mat
• Magnet Hunt poster
• Magnet Hunt recording sheet
• 4 Magnet Mazes
• Magic Car poster
• Ramp Race poster for different textures
• Ramp Race poster for different heights
• ribbons for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners of the Ramp Race
• labels (cardboard, bubble wrap, felt, low ramp, medium ramp, high ramp)
• Roll or Slide? poster with cards to sort and blank
• Push or Pull? poster with cards to sort and blank

Materials needed for these force and motion activities:

• teddy bear counters
• spinners
• scarves, ribbons, or magic wands
• small magnetic and non-magnetic items
• magnetic wands
• other types of magnets
• toy cars
• cardboard
• bubble wrap
• felt
• Velcro dots
• small roll or slide items (ball, can, car, pencil, tape, dice, block, bear, rock, clip)

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