Force and Motion

Students have been exploring balls in a variety of hands on, inquiry based experiments.  This week, students explored the differences between balls of different sizes and materials.  They compared specific properties - size, weight, bounciness, and ability to roll and recorded their results in their journals.  During this process students are being asked a variety of questions and encouraged to raise questions themselves while conducting these experiments.  Some of these questions that guide their learning  in this lesson include: is the bigger ball always the heavier one? what are the balls made of? how do you know?

We also focused this week on the bounciness of different balls  and looked closely at the relationship between the action of the ball and it's physical characteristics.