Grade 3 – Unit 4
How Forces Affect Toys
Discover the Science Behind Toy Movement! Engage Grade 3 students in hands-on learning with How Forces Affect Toys, exploring how different forces make toys start, stop, or change direction. This Releasing-Writers-inspired unit pairs an engaging mentor text with vocabulary support and exemplars, helping students practise writing with the subordinating conjunction however. The unit includes an optional Frictional Force Experiment to see how friction affects speed and motion. Aligned with the Grade 3 Science curriculum, Strand C: Forces in Motion, C2.3, students investigate forces while building evidence-based explanations about how toys move.
Structured Writing Cycle
- Mentor Text – How Forces Affect Toys
- Experiments
- Educator Resource – Structured Writing