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What Is a Push?

Push and Pull

Day 96of 180
Week 20of 36
15Minutes
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🎯 What You'll Learn

Learning Objectives

1

Understand what 'pushing' means

2

Practice pushing objects with hands

3

Recognize that God designed us to interact with the world around us

📖 Scripture Connection

Proverbs 3:19

“Yahweh by wisdom founded the earth. By understanding, he established the heavens.”

— Proverbs 3:19 (WEB)

God designed the physical world with natural laws that we can explore and understand through science

📦 Materials Needed

  • Toy cars
  • Soft balls
  • Lightweight blocks
  • Small ramp
  • BibleMouse Science Exploration Mat
📚 Step-by-Step

Lesson Plan

1Opening (3 min)

Welcome to today's BibleMouse science adventure! Let's remember how we learned about changes in materials last time.

💭 Review Question: Can you show me how ice becomes water when it gets warm?
2Teaching (5 min)

Today we're going to learn about pushing - using our hands to move things away from us!

📌 Key Talking Points:
  • Pushing means moving something away
  • We use our hands to push
  • Pushing can make things move across a surface
💬 Discussion Questions:
  • Can you show me how you push something?
  • What happens when you push a toy car?
3Activity: Push and Explore (6 min)
hands-on

Practice pushing different objects on the BibleMouse Science Exploration Mat

📝 Instructions:
  1. Gather your toys
  2. Try pushing each toy with your hand
  3. Watch how far and how fast each toy moves
  4. Notice which toys move easily and which are harder to push
🔄 Variations:

Simpler: Push toys on a flat surface

Challenge: Use the small ramp to see how pushing affects movement

4Closing (3 min)

Let's review what we learned about pushing!

📝 Review Questions:
  • What does pushing mean?
  • Show me how you push a toy

Coming up: Tomorrow we'll learn about pulling - bringing things closer to us!

👨‍👩‍👧 For Parents

Teaching Notes

📚 Background:

Pushing is a fundamental physics concept that helps children understand motion

💡 Teaching Tips:
  • Use clear, simple language
  • Demonstrate pushing before asking child to try
  • Praise attempts and exploration
🤔 Common Struggles:

Young children might confuse pushing and pulling

👀 Signs of Understanding:

Child successfully moves objects by pushing

🚀 Want More?

Extension Activities

  • Use BibleMouse Printables Library push/pull sorting worksheet
  • Sing a movement song about pushing from BibleMouse Song Collection

Ready for Tomorrow?

Great job completing today's lesson!

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