Forces and Magnets (KS2 Science)

Forces and Magnets – Complete Upper KS2 Science Lesson Bundle (Year 5 / Year 6)

This ready-to-teach Forces and Magnets bundle provides a complete, engaging science lesson for Upper KS2, designed to develop secure understanding through discussion, reasoning, and misconception-spotting.

The lesson follows a think, talk, explain, learn structure, helping pupils explore key scientific ideas before formal teaching. Carefully designed true/false challenges target common misconceptions about friction, gravity, and magnets, allowing pupils to refine their understanding through talk and justification.

This bundle includes:
• Fully resourced PowerPoint lesson
• Printable pupil quiz
• Mix and Match glossary activity
• Teacher guide with lesson overview, National Curriculum coverage, and answers
• Exit ticket for assessment for learning

Key learning covered:
• Forces as pushes and pulls
• How forces affect speed and direction
• Friction and gravity
• Magnetism, poles, attraction and repulsion
• Magnetic and non-magnetic materials
• Electromagnets

Perfect for Year 5 or Year 6, this resource supports rich classroom discussion, strong scientific vocabulary, and clear assessment opportunities – ideal for a standalone lesson or part of a forces topic.