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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 happens when the push is harder?
  2. 2. What was kept the same in this test?
  3. 3. What does this record not tell you?
2.A child pushes very softly. What do you think will happen?
  • A.The ball will go up
  • B.The ball will roll across the whole hall
  • C.The ball will roll only a short way
3.Why does every child push the same ball?
  • A.So only the push is different
  • B.Because it is the biggest ball
  • C.So nobody loses it
4.Why write down how far each push went?
  • A.So the ball remembers
  • B.To make the page full
  • C.So we can compare the pushes afterward
5.Who decides how hard each push is in a fair test?
  • A.We agree soft, medium and hard before we start
  • B.The ball decides
  • C.Nobody, we push any way we like
6.Why does every push start from the same line?
  • A.So the line stays clean
  • B.So the steps can be counted from the same place
  • C.So the ball goes faster
7.How could you tell which push sent the ball furthest?
  • A.Listen to it roll
  • B.Count the steps to where it stopped
  • C.Look at its color

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Answer key — How Far the Ball Rolled

Set 22. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. The ball rolls further. 2. The same ball, the same line and the same floor. 3. It does not tell you which way the ball rolled.
  2. 2.The ball will roll only a short way
  3. 3.So only the push is different
  4. 4.So we can compare the pushes afterward
  5. 5.We agree soft, medium and hard before we start
  6. 6.So the steps can be counted from the same place
  7. 7.Count the steps to where it stopped

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