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From the force of kicking a ball, to the sun of your back, there's lots of different kinds of energy in the world around us. Cool takes a look at these different classifications, and how we can make use of some of the more sustainable and renewable ones.

Australian Curriculum (v9.0) content description: Year 4 Science

Identify how forces can be exerted by one object on another and investigate the effect of frictional, gravitational and magnetic forces on the motion of objects (AC9S4U03)

Year 4 Achievement Standard

By the end of Year 4 students identify forces acting on objects and describe their effect.

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