VC2S2U11
Parents start here
By the end of Foundation to Level 2: your child knows a push or a pull can change how a thing moves.
- Describe a push and a pull as types of force that make objects move, speed up, slow down, or change direction
- Compare the effects of a gentle push versus a strong push on the same object
One skill from the map, ages 5–6 — its page has the rest of the checklist and what comes next. Candidate alignment, machine-suggested and unreviewed (v0.1).
A Victorian Curriculum F–10 Version 2.0 content description in Science, Foundation to Level 2. The description text is © VCAA and not reproduced here — read the official wording at the VCAA site.
Official source: Victorian Curriculum F–10 V2.0 — Science ↗ · content © VCAA (CC-BY-NC) · codes shown as reference labels only
Closest Australian Curriculum v9 codes
The national codes this Victorian code most closely corresponds to — machine-suggested candidates, unreviewed (v0.1).
describe pushes and pulls in terms of strength and direction and predict the effect of these forces on objects’ motion and shape
describe how objects move and how factors including their size, shape or material influence their movement
recognise that materials can be changed physically without changing their material composition and explore the effect of different actions on materials including bending, twisting, stretching and breaking into smaller pieces
Other skills on the Learning Map matched to this code — candidate alignments, machine-suggested and unreviewed (v0.1).
7 other candidate matches — 2 medium, 5 low
medium confidence
low confidence
Alignments generated 9 July 2026, unreviewed.
Nearby in the Science Understanding strand (Foundation to Level 2):
VC2S2U01VC2S2U02VC2S2U03VC2S2U04VC2S2U05VC2S2U06VC2S2U07VC2S2U08
Teaching this? Learning Map for teachers has the sequencing view and copy-paste words to send home.