Tuesday, May 10, 2016

Exploring Motion

Here are a few of the ways we've been exploring how things move.

Magnetic Marble Tubes
Best use of paper towel rolls I've found yet...the kids have loved this.

Ramps
We've tried out some different materials to make ramps, including train tracks, blocks, cardboard pieces and a vinyl rain gutter. We've used the ramps to observe how items move- do they slide? roll? get stuck? Do they stay on the ramp? Do they go down in a straight line? 

Wind and Blowing
We also tried moving things by blowing, like the wind. This was a blowing pom-pom game that we played. It was harder than it looked to control the movement of the pom-pom.


Then the kids came up with this blowing game all on their own. They called it "Wind Bowling." They arranged the pins in different ways, and tried to blow them down with only their breath.

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