What is motion? What are the different ways objects move? Can you change the speed of an object? Why does an object fall to the ground? These are all questions the students investigated this week. Each student was given a car, a piece of cardboard, and a partner. They were asked to use the cardboard to move the car without using any force of their own. Next, the students experimented with the angle of the cardboard. What angle would make the car move faster? Finally, the students discussed why the car moves to the bottom of the ramp on its own. We discussed the force of gravity.
Later that week, the students created marble art using the force of gravity. The marble moved around the box as the students changed the direction of the box. Gravity pulled the marble across the page to create a colorful show of motion and direction.
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May 2017
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