Physics Fridays - Gears Part 1

KM is continue with her Physics Workshop through our Winter Session and she continues to enjoy it a lot. She started the unit on gears this week and here is the first contraption...

Physics Friday will be on break until January -

KM has two weeks of lessons before we take a three week break and has asked if she can do a small study on Penguins for her science over the next two weeks, so Physics Fridays will return for another 10 week session starting January 8th! Be sure to check back and feel free to check out the Physics Fridays in the archives!

Physics Friday #5

This week she finished up simple machines and the topics were force, wheels, axles and inclined planes....


I must say she is still RAVING about BrainPop!!! She is doing it daily and keeps finding more and more links to all her subject areas! It is so wonderful when they start reaching out for more and more information on their own!

Physics Friday #5

With our new schedule going well she was VERY ambitious this week and decided to take on quite a few experiments and workshops. Some came out better than others and the latter were not allowed to be photographed so here the ones that made it through -






and we had some difficulties and some success with this one as well.





Km is starting to realize on her own what it means to bite off more than you can chew! Frustrations were a bit high this morning as we headed down from a LONG week, but she held it together and completed most of the tasks that she tried. This one section of the manual was also a bit trickier to understand with far fewer instructions on how to put it together and more of them just showing you pictures to recreate. It was great to work through them and figure out what could have been done better. We also discussed who if they had used pictures from all sides we would have been fully capable of replicating the exact thing. All in all despite the aggravation and near loss of temper, a LOT was learned from this weeks projects.

PHYSICS FRIDAY - #4

She finished up the first unit in the kit this week by making a pretty neat contraption:

She will be experimenting with this all weekend, to see how far she can shoot it, what else she can shoot and she may even try to aim for some better targets....hopefully the dogs and cats won't be in the line of fire!

Physics Friday - #3

She created a force scale that measured in Newtons -

Then did a demonstration of Inert Mass and a Gimbal to show how something can stay stable even when moving.

PHYSICS FRIDAY - #2

This week she built an ATV - including putting all the links together - that could reach speeds of 1.04 miles per hour.

Then she did some experiments with Gravitional Force -
The contraption had to be 6 feet high so we had to do some quick thinking on that one -

Here was the final outcome -

PHYSICS FRIDAY - #1

WE STARTED OUR PHYSICS WORKSHOP KIT THIS WEEK. KM DECIDED THAT SHE IS GOING TO HOLD OFF ON DOING THE ACTUAL MIDDLE SCHOOL PHYSICS FROM SIMPLE SCHOOLING, AS RIGHT NOW IT JUST DOES NOT APPEAL TO HER. HOWEVER THE KIT THAT YOU ARE SUPPOSE TO USE IT WITH IS VERY APPEALING.

WE WILL BE POSTING PHOTOS OF THE EXPERIMENTS AND WORKSHOPS EACH FRIDAY FOR ALL TO SEE.

DUE TO POSSIBLE COPYRIGHT ISSUES I WILL NOT BE GOING OVER THE INSTRUCTIONS, BUT YOU CAN TAKE A LOOK AT THE KIT HERE .