High Tech/High Touch Science Experiments (Force and Motion)

We had an amazing afternoon working with Asteroid Amber on science projects that have to do with force and motion.  

First we started off with some that involved magnetism.  We used cars with magnets and race tracks to watch the magnetism pull the car through the tracks.

 Using a magnet to direct a paperclip through a race track.

Our next experiment was based on Newtons Law of gravity.  His law states an object at rest wants to stay at rest unless another force is applied (like a push or pull) once something is in motion.  Once in motion, it will want to stay in motion until another force stops it.  This is the idea of gravity and inertia.  We used the cup/bowl and table cloth as well as the egg in a bottle which demonstrated this law of gravity using gravity and air pressure. 

Our turn to try...

 Our favorite experiment was the egg in a bottle experiment!

 Our 3 final experiments with Asteroid Amber from High Tech/High Touch were a sock filled with beans.  Students ran to a line on the ground then let go of sock at a specific point (line on the carpet) when running & the sock continued moving past the line.

 They also worked on an experiment where close pins and a cup was used to demonstrate when force is pushed upon a stable object it will then start to move (drop into a cup from a resting place).

Finally our last experiment was a tornado in a bottle using tornado tubes!

 We all had a blast with this part of the experiments!

Everyone had a wonderful afternoon and it was definitely a fun Friday, to say the least!