tinkering with balance

Explore stability and gravity by creating balancing sculptures out of recycled and household items. Young builders develop problem solving skills as they modify their creations to stack higher and higher!

skills practiced:

• problem solving
• cause + effect
• planning and carrying out investigations (DCI)
• motion + stability (DCI)
  • 3-PS2-1: Plan and conduct an investigation to provide evidence of the effects of balanced and unbalanced forces on the motion of an object.