Forces and Motion Activity

This lesson includes a PDF Presentation and printables you can use with your Grades PreK through 1st-grade students!

This is a great hands on opportunity to conduct a push and pull activity that also combines with cutting, art and primary colors. Students use balls in trays with paint to investigate how slope, speed, collisions and motion can visually create random patterns and movement! This lesson is just plain super fun to do!

The Lesson Presentation includes:

• Teacher Prep Slides that explain your supplies and timing.
• Bright and colorful instructional slides to show your students.
• Pictorial instructions to ease the way.
• Printables for cutting triangles and circles along a line.

So Easy to Use!

• Show it on a smartboard.
• Use a tablet in centers.
• Print it out for your own reference.

In this lesson, students will:

• Practice cutting along a dotted line
• Create their own Abstract work of art.
• Learn the Primary Colors and their attributes.
• Use the Tap-A-Dot, Not-A-Lot gluing technique.
• Set balls in motion and vary their speed and direction.
• See Standards covered below.

It is super fun and E A S Y ! Adds bright art to your classroom or hallways!

Standards

NGSS

K-PS2-1,-2, A, B, C

K.ETS1-1, K.ETS1.-2

Mathematics

MP.2

MP.5

K.MD.1-2

National Visual Arts

VA: Cr1.1.PKa, Cr1.2.PKa. Cr2.1.PKa, Cr2.2.PKa

VA: Cr1.1.Ka, Cr1.2.Ka, Cr3.1.Ka

VA: Cr1.1.1a, Cr1.2.1a

Common Core

K.G.A.2

K.CC.B.5

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