In lessons 1 to 9, students learn about: 

• what a force is and identify some common examples of forces in our everyday lives
• identifying different types of forces and explain the difference between contact and noncontact forces
• describing the ways forces can push and pull objects, causing them to move or stop moving.
• how forces can resist objects when they are moving
• how forces can repel two objects away from each other or attract two objects closer to each other.
• the force of gravity and how it affects objects of different sizes and shapes
• Sir Isaac Newton and how his law of forces can explain the size and direction of forces
• the Scientific Method to investigate Newton’s Laws
• preparing a report about our findings. 

Progress Tests
Progress tests are conducted after every second lesson, allowing teachers to monitor student understanding of the concepts taught over the past two lessons and to identify where reteaching is needed. The Teaching Guide contains the testing questions, and the Student Workbook has a section where students write their answers and score themselves.

Structured Research Activity
The Structured Research Activity (SRA) for this unit is: Students to investigate Newton’s laws school experiment. The SRA takes place over two lessons so students can apply the Science Understanding and Science Inquiry Skills covered in the unit. Teachers use the Guide to Making Judgements, which is included in the Teaching Guide, to mark the SRA.

End-of-unit assessment
The last lesson is the end-of-unit assessment which has a variety of question formats (e.g. label the diagram, circle the correct answer) to assess student mastery of content from the unit.