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Procedure
Building background knowledge
1. Fix a large brightly colored helium balloon with tape near where you
will be speaking.
2. Walk in with large cardboard box (apparently very heavy) and hold it on
the edge of a table, ensuring that the box can be seen to project a long
way over the edge of the table.
3. Ask a student to attach the balloon to the end of the box away from the
table.
4. Leave go of the box (which stays in place because there is a brick
inside it)
5. Ask students to predict whether or not the box will fall if the balloon is
removed.
6. Ask a student to remove the balloon and show that the box is still
balanced.
7. Have the class discuss possibilities for why the box is still balanced
8. Show the students the brick that was holding the box in place
Lesson adapted from
http://www.iop.org/activity/outreach/Resources/Physicists_and_Primary_Schools
_Project/Topics/Forces%20and%20Gravity/page_5835.html
Continuing lesson
1. Challenge students to find obejcts in the classroom, school, or outside
that need either a pull or a push (or both) to make them move.
There may be more objects that require both a push/pull; you may
want to change the verbage in the lesson to include items that
MOSTLY need a pull or a push to make them move
2. Complete Push/Pull table-can be found at:
http://www.firstschoolyears.com/science/forces/worksheets/push%20or
%20pull%20table.doc
OR Push/Pull Venn Diagram can be found at:
http://www.firstschoolyears.com/science/forces/worksheets/push%20or
%20pull%20venn%20diagram.doc
Extensions
Complete a KWL Chart about pushing/pulling
Video clip(s)-push and pull
www.discoveryeduction.com (need subscription)
www.brainpopjr.com (need subscription)
Worksheet(s)-push and pull
www.edhelper.com (need subscription to access some worksheets)
Read book(s) about push/pull
On-line game(s) (push/pull concepts)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/ages/5_6/pushes_pulls.shtml
http://www.firstschoolyears.com/science/resources/games/forces/pushes.htm
http://www.firstschoolyears.com/science/resources/games/forces/quiz/quiz.htm
Play Push/Pull charades
Use the action portrayed as new words for the song, Here
We Go Round the Mulberry Bush.
Each time the students come to the last phrase in the song,
end with the words with a push or a pull in the morning.
Music and lyrics can be found at:
http://kids.niehs.nih.gov/lyrics/mulberry.htm
Idea taken from http://www.uen.org/Lessonplan/preview.cgi?
LPid=9693
Challenge students to find toys at home that require a push/pull to move
and have them create their own table or Venn Diagram