Forces - Push Pull

Have you ever been in the middle of enjoying a scrumptious piece of food, and just as it enters your mouth...splat, it slips out of your hands and falls on the floor? If so, then you've experienced force. Force happens all around us, all of the time. Luckily, not all examples include mouth watering foods falling to the floor.

Force is a push or a pull of an object that causes the object to speed up, slow down, or stay in one place. In other words, a force is what causes an object to move. Friction and gravity are two types of forces that influence how an object moves. Let's learn more about them.

Check out our pages to explore some student centered experiential learning opportunities for students in Years 1 and 2.


Physical sciences

  1. The way objects move depends on a variety of factors including their size and shape: a push or a pull affects how an object moves or changes shape (VCSSU048)

May the force be with you!

This website is to support teachers and students to explore and understand the forces, in other words the way an object moves depends on a variety of factors including their size and shape: a push or a pull affects how an object moves or changes shape. VCSSU048