Find out all about the science in the world around us with Moving Up with Science. Written to support the National Curriculum at Key Stage 2, each title explores key scientific topics through a combination of concise information and fun experiments.

Moving Up With Science: Forces and Magnets takes you on a journey of scientific discovery. Find out how we use forces everyday; which force pulls objects down holes and why Earth acts like a huge magnet. Explore which materials are magnetic and discover how to test them.

This book is part of a book series called Moving Up With Science .

This book is suitable for Key Stage 2. KS2 covers school years 4, 5 and 6, and ages 8-11 years. A key stage is any of the fixed stages into which the national curriculum is divided, each having its own prescribed course of study. At the end of each stage, pupils are required to complete standard assessment tasks. This book is aimed at children in primary school.

There are 32 pages in this book. This book was published 2016 by Hachette Children's Group .

Peter D. Riley is a full-time author and has written over 200 books for primary and secondary Science.

This book has the following chapters:

• 1: What is a force?
• 2: Squash, stretch, turn, twist
• 3: Gravity and friction
• 4: Magnetic force
• 5: Magnetic test
• 6: Force fields
• 7: Magnetic poles
• 8: Finding the poles
• 9: Test the force
• 10: Strength tests
• 11: The jump test
• 12: Magnets and electricity
• 13: Glossary
• 14: Answers
• 15: Index