NEWTON!

We have been learning about Sir Isaac Newton and his three laws of motion.  

Law 1: Objects in motion will remain in motion and objects at rest will remain at rest unless acted on by a force.  

Bowling pins will remain standing until....

Law 2: An object's acceleration depends upon the amount of force acting on it and the object's mass.  (So, we tested this out by using a force of air, from a straw to move a ping pong ball and a golf ball across the table!) #alotofspit!

Law 3: For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. 

We made balloon rockets* and saw the
action and reaction in action! 

*Check out our video on Twitter! 

So today... we put all 3 laws in action!  

PING PONG BALL?     

GOLF BALL?

HAIR DRYER? 

Can the force of the hair dryer move the ping pong ball in the air?  

Can it move the golf ball?

But WAIT!  What about.... 

... a leaf blower?

It was awesome!  I blew papers off desks, Allison's hair was all askew, cursive letters blew off the wall, and Aaron actually fell out of his chair.  But, it could in fact blow the GOLF ball in the air! We learned about increased force to move a larger mass!