1. 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!
Tightrope walkers:

2. Vocabulary Lesson 1
Crayfish
Balance
Clothespin
counterweight

3. What is a Crayfish?
How can we balance the crayfish?

4. 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?

5. 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?

7. Vocabulary Lesson 2
Arch
Triangle
Stable

8. 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?

9. Vocabulary Lesson 3
Mobile
Wire
Counterweight
Balance Point

11. 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?

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

18. 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

21. 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

23. 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
patriotic twirler

26. Rollers
Axle
Disk
Roll
Wheel

27. Balance Scale http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCb1hbFf-0M balance scale
video