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Mass Matters
Online Activity
Mass Matters
Online Activity
- Journal pages 24-25
- Copy and complete the steps in your journal.
- You should have 3 sections - Hook, Part 1, Part 2
- Set up your journal like the picture below.
HOOK - Newton Knew that Mass Matter
Activity Instructions:
1. Blow up a balloon and tie it off.
2. Find the mass of each item (balloon, steel ball, clay ball)
3. Use your thumb and finger to flick each the balloon, clay ball, steel ball, forcing it to move as far as possible. USE THE SAME AMOUNT OF FLICK FORCE on all 3 items!
4. Illustrate Each example.
5. Complete the following question
QUESTIONS:
A. WHICH ONE, THE BALLOON , STEEL BALL, OR CLAY BALL, RESISTED CHANGE MORE? IN OTHER WORDS, WHICH ONE HAD MORE INERTIA?
B. WHICH ONE, THE BALLOON, STEEL BALL, OR CLAY BALL, AHS THE MOST MASS? DOES THIS MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN HOW FAR THE OBJECT GOES?
Activity Instructions:
1. Blow up a balloon and tie it off.
2. Find the mass of each item (balloon, steel ball, clay ball)
3. Use your thumb and finger to flick each the balloon, clay ball, steel ball, forcing it to move as far as possible. USE THE SAME AMOUNT OF FLICK FORCE on all 3 items!
4. Illustrate Each example.
5. Complete the following question
QUESTIONS:
A. WHICH ONE, THE BALLOON , STEEL BALL, OR CLAY BALL, RESISTED CHANGE MORE? IN OTHER WORDS, WHICH ONE HAD MORE INERTIA?
B. WHICH ONE, THE BALLOON, STEEL BALL, OR CLAY BALL, AHS THE MOST MASS? DOES THIS MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN HOW FAR THE OBJECT GOES?
PART 1 ~
page 25 (top half)
page 25 (top half)
1. Title the top portion of your notebook
2. Watch the video
3. Observe the motion of the car and the clay.
4. Draw a labeled diagram of Setup 1 just as the car strickes the barrier.
5. Describe the motion of the car and the clay underneath the diagram using complete sentences.
6. Using complete sentences, EXPLAIN how INERTIA affected the motion of the clay when the car hits the barrier.
2. Watch the video
3. Observe the motion of the car and the clay.
4. Draw a labeled diagram of Setup 1 just as the car strickes the barrier.
5. Describe the motion of the car and the clay underneath the diagram using complete sentences.
6. Using complete sentences, EXPLAIN how INERTIA affected the motion of the clay when the car hits the barrier.
Part 2 ~
page 25 (bottom half)
1. Title the bottom portion of your notebook
2. Watch video number 2.
3. Observe the motion of lthe car and the clay.
4. Draw a labeled diagram of Setup 2, just as the car strickes the barrier.
5. Describe the motion of the car and the clay underneath the diagram using complete sentences.
page 25 (bottom half)
1. Title the bottom portion of your notebook
2. Watch video number 2.
3. Observe the motion of lthe car and the clay.
4. Draw a labeled diagram of Setup 2, just as the car strickes the barrier.
5. Describe the motion of the car and the clay underneath the diagram using complete sentences.