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How Far the Ball Rolled is a free printable Kindergarten science worksheet on using a push test to compare the effect of soft and hard pushes, aligned to NGSS performance expectation K-PS2-1. It prints 7 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions that each ask different questions, so no two students in the class work from the same page. Print it from the browser or download it as a PDF — no account, no email.

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How Far the Ball Rolled

K-PS2-1

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Read the record, then answer the questions.

1.Read the record, then answer the questions.

How Far the Ball Rolled

Our push test. Each child pushed the same ball from the same line. HOW FAR THE BALL ROLLED Soft push ......... 1 step Medium push ....... 3 steps Hard push ......... 6 steps Same ball, same line, same floor.

  1. 1. What was kept the same in this test?
  2. 2. What does this record not tell you?
  3. 3. What happens when the push is harder?
2.Why write down how far each push went?
  • A.So the ball remembers
  • B.So we can compare the pushes afterward
  • C.To make the page full
3.What should you do if one roll hits a chair?
  • A.Count it anyway
  • B.Stop the test
  • C.Roll it again
4.A child pushes very softly. What do you think will happen?
  • A.The ball will roll only a short way
  • B.The ball will go up
  • C.The ball will roll across the whole hall
5.Who decides how hard each push is in a fair test?
  • A.The ball decides
  • B.We agree soft, medium and hard before we start
  • C.Nobody, we push any way we like
6.Why does every child push the same ball?
  • A.So only the push is different
  • B.So nobody loses it
  • C.Because it is the biggest ball
7.One child pushes on carpet and one on the hall floor. Is that fair?
  • A.No, the floor should be the same for both
  • B.Yes, carpet is the same as wood
  • C.Yes, it is fair

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Answer key — How Far the Ball Rolled

Set 19. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. The same ball, the same line and the same floor. 2. It does not tell you which way the ball rolled. 3. The ball rolls further.
  2. 2.So we can compare the pushes afterward
  3. 3.Roll it again
  4. 4.The ball will roll only a short way
  5. 5.We agree soft, medium and hard before we start
  6. 6.So only the push is different
  7. 7.No, the floor should be the same for both

Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to K-PS2-1 of the Next Generation Science Standards.