Forces and Interactions Essential Activities for Kindergarten

Science is cool and fun. Its everything you see all day around yourself, outside, inside your room, in your house, science is everywhere. Science is added as a subject at the very early standards. The basics concepts start from here and then they reach the high standards as the standards increase. At the beginning level, the most basic things that are needed to be taught to the kids are force work and energy. They form the very basics of science and these concepts must be made crystal clear at the beginner level. Let’s start by asking a very simple question. How are we able to move stuff around? The answer is very simple we use energy and force to do all the work that we do. Energy It is the ability to move or do work. Force A force is either a push or a pull on an object. It is the energy that we apply on an object to make it move. That’s a small tutorial on force and energy for kids. You can also watch some more science videos for kids that will also help in teaching your kid better.

In this instructional video, students continue to learn about energy with a focus on wind energy. At the beginning of the video, two children fly a kite. The kite is flying beautifully in the air, but after a time it falls to the ground. Ask your students why that happened. The teacher reminds students that energy is the ability to move or do work and that wind energy would help the children fly the kite. He explains that there are different kinds of energy, and in this video, he explains that wind energy is invisible. You can’t see wind, but you can see what wind does. The teacher demonstrates two experiments with wind that parents and teachers can easily replicate in the classroom. Watch the teacher begin the experiment. Pause the video. Ask your students to predict what is going to happen when wind energy is used to move an object or do work. This video is a great resource for science classes. Students will enjoy the experiments and be ready to try some of their own!

We have seen adults confused between push and pull for their whole lives. This happens when the concept from childhood are weak. So, if you don’t want your kid to pulling a door that clearly says PUSH, you must make the difference crystal clear to them. Before that, we need to learn some other concepts too, which is about force and energy. Whenever an object is moving we say that it is in motion and to put an object in motion some force needs to be applied to it. Force is the energy that enables the object to move. Now this force can be either push or pull. The key difference between push and pull is that we when we apply force on an object to move it away from ourselves we say that we are pushing it. However, when we apply force to move the object towards us we say that now we are pulling the object. The object will stay in its place unless or until an external force is applied to it which forces it to move and change its position. After explaining the theory, you can use some real-life examples to further clear out the concept by pushing and pulling different things and asking the kid to identify the kind of force. This concept can save your kid from banging into many doors trying to push it when it says pull. So, keep it crystal clear.

When you are building the basics of science in your kid’s mind, you must be very clear and very easy to understand. Science basics start from force and motion. Both the two words are interconnected to each other. We will keep things simple and easy for kids. Motion is when something changes its position and moves from one place to another. However, this motion is not caused by itself, some external energy is required for motion. This energy is called force. Force can be either push or pull. Push is when we move the object away from ourselves and pull is when we move the object towards us. So, this was all the theory. To further clear out the concept do some simple yet fun activities at home or school, or simply let your child watch this video.