Forces and gravity worksheets for Grade 5 Science provide focused practice with how pushes, pulls, friction, and gravity affect an object's motion. Built around the NGSS framework and the topic of Motion and Stability: Forces and Interactions, this resource helps students move from identifying individual forces to explaining the overall effect of forces acting on an object.

Explore how forces change motion

Students examine how pushes and pulls can change motion and how friction affects moving objects. They also distinguish contact forces from gravity as a non-contact force and describe net force as the overall effect of forces acting on an object. Questions further connect changes in mass and distance with how strongly gravity acts.

This makes the resource useful for targeted net force practice, a forces and motion lesson, independent science work, or reviewing key vocabulary and ideas after instruction.

What students work through

• Multiple-choice questions
• True or false statements
• Short-answer responses
• A science dialogue
• A matching activity
• A cloze passage
• A labeled diagram
• A reading passage
• An extended essay response

Included for classroom instruction

• ✅ Forces, Gravity, and Net Force Effects worksheet
• ✅ Separate Teacher Guide PDF
• Learning Objectives
• Teaching Tips
• Discussion Questions
• Common Mistakes

Why this resource supports meaningful science practice

Rather than limiting students to naming forces, the tasks ask them to explain how forces affect motion and connect related ideas across several forms of science thinking. Students encounter vocabulary, written responses, visual interpretation, reading, and extended explanation while staying focused on the same central concepts: pushes, pulls, friction, gravity, contact forces, non-contact forces, and net force.

The separate teacher guide adds practical support for presenting and discussing the lesson by providing objectives, teaching guidance, discussion prompts, and common mistakes to address. Use this Grade 5 forces worksheet for whole-class instruction, independent practice, small-group review, homework, or science assessment preparation.

A focused Grade 5 forces and motion worksheet that brings gravity and net force concepts together through specific scientific reasoning and varied practice.