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 moved Language Objective-We will be making a design for our tops and record what happens when they move. Vocab Axis Rotate Spin

What are we learning today? Content Objective-Explain the different ways objects can be moved Language Objective-We will be making a zoomer and recording what tops and zoomers have in common. Vocab Zoomer Knot

What are we learning today? Content Objective-Explain the different ways objects can be moved Language Objective-We will build a twirler. We will record our findings using at least one vocabulary word. Vocab Twirler 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