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Racecar mods!!
Goal: incr friction.
Winner: slowest car down the track; or, stopped car closest to top of track.
Another Gr 2 class doing this #ForceAndMotion
#STEAM / #makerspace lesson (w/ funky note taking partly visible; soon will draw/label car & mods).
Hypothesizing as they go.
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Picture of the racecar friction lab in action yesterday. POV: camera behind a white truck matchbox toy poised at the top of a steep track that goes down from a library shelf over pillars of chairs and old atlases till the track peters out by the closed library door. The vehicle has been modified with a wooden block on the roof, a popsicle stick sticky tacked horizontally onto the bumper, and unbent paper clip “wings” protruding out the side with sticky tacked blobs at the each end.
An screenshot of an old Twitter #ForceAndMotion friction racecar post from 2022 which explains similar content to my post here and in the alt text for the other image here. It shows that there’s a video on the old tweet of a vehicle currently poised at the top of the track. On that video, I had a student (not visible) explain their hypothesis before nudging the car down the track…it stopped halfway down! I didn’t share a link because, even though it’s a cool little video, who really wants to go back to the old, bad place and hang with Papa Muskrat’s crew…? But, if someone wanted to see it, the search terms needed are the hashtag I mentioned and friction racecar…
Yesterday:
Revisited an annual
(since at least 2017) #ForceAndMotion Gr 2 friction racecar lab.
Hot wheels track, matchbox cars. Modification supplies: sticky tack,paper clip,pipe cleaner,elastic…
Goal: Incr friction, have car stop on steep track; can’t block wheels; all four must connect w/ track.
A picture from above looking down at the workbench, with several example sheets laid out across it, showing the force and motion push/pull notes on drawing pages, plus a “force with tools” notes/drawing page that has pictures from the guided drawing lesson of saws, pliers, hammers and screwdrivers.
First, the #ForceAndMotion unit involves learning the scientific concepts, doing some guided notes & drawing to reinforce concepts, then an introduction to tools day, along w/ discussions of proper safe usage of those tools prior to exploration day.
Great for Sci, but also as intro to #makerspace.
A picture of me ready for exploration stations with tools. In the background is the graphic normal section with books on display on the top of shelves and various promo posters on the whiteboard above. In the foreground, there’s a tarp splattered with many different colours of paint from various projects over the years laid out on the floor and on top of it is a mini workbench– the kids size workbench. On the workbench I have a great big toolbox and in front of it are several different saws propped against the toolbox. Behind the workbench I’m standing looking towards the camera holding a hammer in my hand. I’m dressed in my #LibrarianFashion which today includes fancy black shoes, polkadotted socks, although we can’t really see those and denim shirt with indigo polkadots, black jeans, a silver tie with black umbrellas on it because it’s been raining so much lately, and gray hand knit cardigan over top.
Same photo, just a moment later and a slightly different pose. See alt-text on previous picture.
Me, an hour ago,
all dressed up and ready to…
hammer, saw, sand, use screwdrivers & wire cutters!!
This is a regular #ForceAndMotion learning station with common hand tools.
Today w/ Gr 2s; also do a K unit. Putting push/pull force into motion/action—concrete learning…sorta #PlayLearning.
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Shelf with picture book entitled The Fix-It Man showing.
⚙️ Studying #ForceAndMotion, #SimpleMachines, or introducing #EDP to your elementary students?
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