Today we showed the class a Bill Nye segment demonstrating why planets travel in circular orbits. The class seemed to enjoy the video, and it was a good segue into the ball drop activity. Overall I felt that the class was much more focused today. The students really got involved with the ball drop activity. There was a lot of discussion about which objects would fall first and why. Good opportunity to discuss human error and the importance of multiple trials.
Earlier in the class, a student asked me if we had really gone to the moon (in connection with the Bill Nye video), and so I was really hoping to show the Apollo video demonstrating a hammer and feather falling at the same time. Unfortunately, we ran short on time (Friday block is only 45 minutes) but I told the student to search for the video. Monday I’ll see if he took my suggestion (he did).
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