Year 3 Forces and Magnets Workbook | KS2 Contact & Non-Contact Forces, Magnetic Materials, Poles Practice +Answers
Year 3 Forces and Magnets workbook. KS2 practice: contact and non-contact forces, magnetic materials, attraction, repulsion, poles. Retrieval with answers.
The practice-focused companion to the Year 3 Forces and Magnets Booklet. Where the booklet teaches the unit, this workbook drills it through retrieval tasks, sorting activities, prediction questions, and short-answer items. Built for end-of-unit consolidation, homework, revision, and adaptive learning.
What's inside:
- Sorting activities: contact forces (push, pull, friction) vs non-contact forces (magnetism, gravity)
- Classification tasks: testing materials for whether they're attracted to a magnet (iron, steel, aluminium, copper, plastic, wood)
- Magnet diagrams: identifying north and south poles
- Prediction questions: will two magnets attract or repel when arranged like this
- Investigation worksheets: testing magnets through different materials, recording observations
- Self-assessment tracker and full answers included
UK National Curriculum reference: Year 3 Science, Forces and Magnets. Aligned to the statutory requirements: compare how things move on different surfaces; notice that some forces need contact between two objects, but magnetic forces can act at a distance; observe how magnets attract or repel each other; compare and group together a variety of everyday materials on the basis of whether they are attracted to a magnet; describe magnets as having two poles; predict whether two magnets will attract or repel each other.
Who it's for: Year 3 class teachers needing end-of-unit retrieval practice, primary science leads, primary tutors, parents wanting to consolidate Year 3 science learning at home, and homeschool families on the UK national curriculum.
Pair with the matching teaching content: Forces and Magnets Year 3 Booklet — https://advisoryscience.com/b/forces-and-magnets-year-3-booklet
Pair with the free video: The WHOLE Year 3 Forces And Magnets Unit — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzTn3O_AZFI
Read the blog post: How Gap-Fill Worksheets Support Adaptive Learning in Science — https://advisoryscience.com/blog/retrieval-adaptive-learning-resources/why-gap-fill-worksheets-transform-adaptive-learning-in-science
Related Year 3 workbooks: Plants, Animals Including Humans, Light, Rocks.
Related KS2 retrieval resources: Year 3 Science Gap Fill Pack, Year 3 Science Vocabulary Match, Year 3 Science Frayer Models.
Made by an award-winning science educator with 25+ years of teaching experience. Used by 150+ UK schools. Instant download, A4 PDF, print-ready, full answers included.
Licence: digital product. Personal/classroom use only. Print copies for your own child/children or your class; not for sharing on school drives, WhatsApp groups, social media, or resellers.
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