Worksheets and Activities for Force and Motion: Push, Pull, Gravity

This force and motion packet is for grades 3 and 4.

It covers pushes, pulls, gravity, friction, and contact forces, and it goes beyond just vocabulary.

Students do two investigations, work through a ramp activity, and tackle a STEM challenge where they design their own ramp and then improve it.

There’s also a real-life connections section and a review at the end.

Answer key included, print-ready PDF, nothing to prep.

The STEM challenge is the part I’d point to if you’re skeptical.

Rather than defining what a ramp does, students get a problem and figure it out.

That tends to land better with kids than abstract explanations, and it shows up later when they’re tested on it.

Skills covered: identifying types of forces, explaining how gravity and friction affect motion, making predictions, recording observations.

Works for whole-class lessons, small groups, science centers, independent practice, and homeschool.

No adaptation needed between those settings