balance & motion

Balance & Motion• How long can you balance on your right foot?

– Try with hands on your head– Try with hands out by your sides.– Which is easier? Why?

• How long can you balance on your left foot?

• Watch this girl balance on a beam! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0p3Y_uF-nPU

• Tightrope walkers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iV-6j-B3fto

Vocabulary Lesson 1

• Crayfish• Balance• Clothespin• counterweight

What is a Crayfish?

• How can we balance the crayfish?

During Investigation Questions

• Where should you put your clothespins on a paper crayfish to get it to balance on its side?

• How could you get the crayfish to balance straight up and down on its tail?

After Investigation Questions

• How do you know when something is balanced?

• Think about all the different ways you balanced the crayfish. Is there anything you notice that is always the same?

Vocabulary Lesson 2

•Arch

• Triangle

• Stable

During Investigation Questions

• Can you get it to balance another way?

• How many ways can you make a stable position using only one clothespin for a counter weight?

Vocabulary Lesson 3

•Mobile•Wire

•Counterweight•Balance Point

Investigation Questions Lesson 4

• Where did you put the clothespins to get a stable system?

• Can you get a stable system using no clothespins? One pin? Two pins?

• Where did you place the counterweight to get a stable system?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkTLN1T17p4 top video

What are we learning today in Science?

Content Objective-Explain the different ways objects can be movedLanguage Objective-We will be making a design for our tops and record what happens when they move.

VocabAxisRotate Spin

What are we learning today?

Content Objective-Explain the different ways objects can be movedLanguage Objective-We will be making a zoomer and recording what tops and zoomers have in common.

VocabZoomerKnot

What are we learning today?

Content Objective-Explain the different ways objects can be movedLanguage Objective-We will build a twirler. We will record our findings using at least one vocabulary word.

VocabTwirler Wing

http://familyfun.go.com/how-to-videos/familyfun-patriotic-twirlers-790982-v/ patriotic twirler

Rollers

•Axle•Disk•Roll•Wheel

Balance Scale

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCb1hbFf-0M balance scale

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHXQXUvQ7yY video

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-yXGFMIp5o