
3rd Grade · Science
Friction Slows Things Down
Free printable 3rd Grade science worksheet: Friction Slows Things Down. It practices forces (NGSS 3-PS2-1). For ages 8-9. Download the PDF, print it, or fill it in online.
Fill in or color online- Grade
- 3rd Grade
- Subject
- Science
- Skill
- Forces
- Ages
- 8–9
- Standard
- 3-PS2-1
- Format
- A4 PDF · print or fill in online
About this worksheet
“Friction Slows Things Down” is sheet 23 of 32 in our free 3rd Grade Science Worksheets collection, written for children aged 8–9. It focuses on forces, one of two sheets in the set on that skill.
In the set it comes after “Mixtures” and before “Predict Motion Patterns”. Working through them in that order, one sheet a day, builds the skill a step at a time.
What this worksheet practices
3-PS2-1 · Next Generation Science Standards · Grade 3
Motion and Stability: Forces and Interactions
Children explore pushes and pulls, and how forces change how objects move.
More forces worksheets
The other 3rd Grade Science sheets on forces, in the order they are meant to be done.
How to use this worksheet
- 1
Do the pendulum and balloon investigations for real. The data sheet is only interesting when the numbers are the child’s own.
- 2
For the traits sheets, look at family photos together and talk about which traits are inherited and which are learned.
- 3
Keep a weather chart for a week before the graphing sheet, then compare it with the graph on the page.







