1. We're still in need to chaperones for our field trip to UMMA on April 29th at 1:30pm (THIS FRIDAY!). We'll be walking and will leave Angell around 1:00 pm. Please notify me via email if you can join!
2. Mark you calendars! Our musical is scheduled for the evening of Thursday, May 19th!
3. Special Kid is Elif!
Last Wednesday, we had the Hand on Museum come to Angell for a "Force and Motion" activity. We've been thinking about force and motion all year!
This activity focused on Newtons 1st Law of Motion--"An object at rest stays at rest and an object in motion stays in motion with the same speed and in the same direction unless acted upon by an unbalanced force".
First, we experimented how "flying disks" acted when we pushed them with different forces (strong push, soft push, etc.). We also experimented to see what happened when different objects were in the way.
2. Mark you calendars! Our musical is scheduled for the evening of Thursday, May 19th!
3. Special Kid is Elif!
Last Wednesday, we had the Hand on Museum come to Angell for a "Force and Motion" activity. We've been thinking about force and motion all year!
This activity focused on Newtons 1st Law of Motion--"An object at rest stays at rest and an object in motion stays in motion with the same speed and in the same direction unless acted upon by an unbalanced force".
First, we experimented how "flying disks" acted when we pushed them with different forces (strong push, soft push, etc.). We also experimented to see what happened when different objects were in the way.
Then, we circled up and talked about how an object in motions travels in a straight direction unless there's another force to change its direction. The museum brought "bumpers" made from wood and rubber bands to change the direction of the flying disk. We realized that, by changing the angle of the bumper, we could aim where the flying disk would go!
This video is a bit lengthy, but I LOVE it because it shows how the students had to problem solve by working together! Their goal was to get the flying disk to bump off of all three bumpers. It took them about 10 minutes, but eventually they did it!