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Pushes and Pulls
Grade 2 - Science - Building Confidence
Worksheet 1
1A class tests a pull on a sled to move supplies across snow without tipping them. What design problem are they solving?
2Which criterion should the box design meet?
3What evidence should students record while testing the push design for the soccer ball?
4Test result: The gentle foot push stopped closest to the cone. What improvement should the team try next?
5Which claim uses the wagon test evidence correctly?
6A class tests a push on a soccer ball to roll a ball to stop near a target cone. What design problem are they solving?
7Which criterion should the sled design meet?
8What evidence should students record while testing the pull design for the wagon?
9Test result: The rope-pull design tipped over only once. What improvement should the team try next?
10Which claim uses the box test evidence correctly?
About this worksheet
This Grade 2 worksheet treats pushes and pulls as design choices, not as an isolated forces unit. Students read a simple problem, decide what the design must do, and use test evidence to judge whether a push or pull solution worked. That framing keeps the work in the K-2 engineering design band while still requiring children to reason about familiar motions. A child who only names push or pull will miss why the class is testing the idea, what counts as success, and which change should be tried next. Support versions name the design problem directly. Standard and challenge versions add closer evidence choices and ask students to connect a trial result with a useful improvement. Watch for guesses based on the object alone; the strongest answer should solve the stated problem and use the measured test result.
What your child will learn
Define a push-or-pull design problem
Choose useful test evidence
Compare trial results
Pick an improvement to test
Worked example
If a wagon must carry books without dropping them, a class can test different pulls and count how many books stay inside.
Common mistake
Naming a push or pull but ignoring the problem, criterion, or test evidence.
Helpful hint
Use the problem and the test result before choosing an improvement.
Worksheet 1