How can you tell they’ve got it: Testing Push & Pull Designs?

If they’ve got it, you’ll see things like: Test a simple design (e.g. ramp, launcher) and collect data on whether it meets the goal; Analyse results to determine if the design works as intended; Suggest modifications based on the data to improve the design's performance. Or just try it together: If your child builds a ramp to make a ball go into a cup, can they test it and figure out what to change if the ball misses?

Science Forces & Motion Ages 5–6

Testing Push & Pull Designs

Your child can build a ramp to send a ball into a cup. They test it, look at what happened, and work out what to change if the ball misses.

In curriculum terms

Analyse data to determine if a design solution works as intended to change the speed or direction of an object with a push or pull

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How to tell they’ve got it

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Test a simple design (e.g. ramp, launcher) and collect data on whether it meets the goal
Analyse results to determine if the design works as intended
Suggest modifications based on the data to improve the design's performance

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Try this together

If your child builds a ramp to make a ball go into a cup, can they test it and figure out what to change if the ball misses?

Where this sits on the map

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Builds on

Pushes & Pullsages 5–6Must understand pushes/pulls before analysing design solutions using them

Testing Push & Pull Designsthis skill · ages 5–6

Unlocks

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Curriculum alignment

Where this fits in the official school curriculum — our best automated guess, not yet checked by a person.

Show candidate curriculum codes · 2 NSW · 1 VIC

Australian Curriculum v9 candidate

This skill sits outside the F–6 Australian Curriculum — no candidate code matched (v0.1).

NSW syllabus codes & stages only

ST1-PQU-01low confidenceScience and Technology K-6 · Stage 1

ST1-DAT-01low confidenceScience and Technology K-6 · Stage 1

Victorian Curriculum 2.0 codes & levels only

VC2S2U11medium confidenceScience · Foundation to Level 2 · Science Understanding strand

These are candidate alignments generated by semantic matching — machine-suggested and unreviewed (v0.1), not official or verified mappings. For official curriculum content see australiancurriculum.edu.au, curriculum.nsw.edu.au and f10.vcaa.vic.edu.au. Don’t rely on them for registration or compliance purposes.

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Forces Vocabularyages 5–8 Pushes & Pullsages 5–6 Contact & Non-Contact Forcesages 7–8 Drawing Force Diagramsages 7–12

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