Science Foundation How Things Move Homeschool Unit PDF

Foundation How Things Move Science Homeschool Unit

Help your child investigate motion through practical experiments and playful challenges with this engaging Science unit designed especially for homeschooling families.

Created for children in their first year of school, this unit includes 10 flexible lessons exploring how familiar objects roll, slide, spin, bounce, swing, fall, float and glide. Children investigate how an object’s size, shape and material can influence the way it moves.

The unit also develops early science inquiry skills by helping children pose questions, make predictions, conduct safe tests, record observations, identify simple patterns and communicate what they discover.

Topics include:

• Different ways familiar objects move
• How size can affect movement
• How materials can influence movement
• Rolling, bouncing and spinning balls
• Movement in games
• Objects moving through air
• How wheels and vehicles move
• Finding and explaining movement patterns
• Designing and testing a marble maze
• Planning and completing a movement investigation

Designed for homeschooling

Each lesson is designed to take approximately 30–45 minutes and can be shortened, extended or completed over several sessions.

Activities include ramps, rolling tests, material comparisons, ball investigations, paper-air challenges, vehicle observations, pattern hunts, marble mazes and a final guided investigation comparing how two objects move.

Written work can be replaced with verbal explanations, drawings, photographs, demonstrations, simple tables or parent-scribed responses, making the unit flexible for different learning styles and abilities.

What is included:

• 10 complete lesson plans
• Clear learning intentions
• Australian Curriculum Version 9.0 Foundation Science alignment
• Hands-on physical science investigations
• Prediction, observation and recording activities
• Support and extension ideas for every lesson
• Simple assessment opportunities
• Final movement investigation and assessment criteria
• Suggested resources and learning materials

This unit provides families with a clear and manageable way to teach physical science at home while encouraging curiosity, problem-solving and hands-on discovery.