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ScienceForces & Motionusually ages 5–6

Testing Push & Pull Designs

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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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
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Curriculum alignment

Candidate matches to official curriculum codes — machine-suggested, unreviewed (v0.1).

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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