Now that kindergarteners know how to launch the pinball, it's time to investigate short and long distances with gentle and strong forces! First we practiced short and long pushes with a tennis ball. We focused on what our bodies felt like when exerting each force: gentle or strong.
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| It's harder to roll the ball a short distance. |
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| How long can it roll? |
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| It rolls a little faster on the table. |
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| Finding more space to roll! |
Now we try short and long distances in our model pinball machine box...with a launcher!
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| It is so hard to make it go short sometimes! |
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| I like shooting it long! |
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| This is a lot of force! |
Next up....making the pinball go left and right! First we practice making the tennis ball go left and right...
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Knowing which way is left and which way is
right can be tricky! |
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| To the right! |
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| Which way now? |
Then we use our new skills on our model pinball machine box and launch the pinball left and right!
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| I'm moving the ball to the right. |
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| The ping pong ball is going left! |
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| I'm doing a big force! |
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Trying out what happens with a little more
height! |
We discovered that making the ping pong ball go in the direction of left or right was easier than making the ball go a short or long distance.
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