Kindergarten Pinball Machines

The kindergarten students are continuing to make progress on the pinball design.  This week they figured out how to make a ball hit a target.  They had to combine both direction and the strength of the force to figure this out.

 Here students are using a tennis ball to figure out how to hit a target.

 Once students figured out how to get the ball to hit the target, they practiced with their box models and then drew their designs in their science notebooks.  The black lines represent the shoe lace, the orange lines represent the rubber band.  They show the intensity of their force by showing the rubber band pulled down a little bit or a lot.  They show the direction of the force by the way the shoelaces are pointing.

 This is our class pinball machine so far.

The literacy coach helped us WRITE about what we figured out.