This lesson gives children the opportunity to carry out a fair test to compare how objects move on different surfaces around school.

The file contains the following resources:
- an editable teaching presentation for the lesson which also explains the task
- an editable fair test planning sheet
- an editable design activity
- an editable activity differentiated 2 ways
- an editable challenge activity to extend children’s learning
- an editable suggested ‘next step’ marking challenge!
- answers sheets

National curriculum objectives:
Science: Year 3:

Pupils should be taught to notice that some forces need contact between two objects, but magnetic forces can act at a distance; describe magnets as having two poles; recording findings using … labelled diagrams

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