Playing Around with Simple Machines
Grades 3 - 5

Discover how simple and complex machines make Alexander Calder's push and pull toys spin, bob and wobble. Students are challenged to play with Calder toy replicas and identify the mechanisms that make them work. Participants will also test unusual wheels to see what kind of motion they create. *Available September - October, 2004 and January - June, 2005

[MA Frameworks Science and Technology/Engineering Strand 4; Standard 1.3. Visual Arts Strand; Standard 10. NY Math, Science, Technology Standard 1. MST Standard 4 Science Physical Setting 5. MST Standard 5 Technology 1.]

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