Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Wind!

This week we played with the wind! We had a front blowing in, and we decided to take advantage of the few remaining hours of nice weather to head down to the park. Before we left, we made these colorful wind sticks by taping pieces of crepe paper on to sticks.

As we ran and played, we noticed the wind blowing the paper around. We compared to see which way the wind was blowing and if it ever changed direction. We watched the clouds and noticed that they were blowing in the same direction as the wind.

We asked questions. Why does the wind change direction? Do the clouds blow the wind or does the wind blow the clouds?

When we arrived back home we did a quick experiment. For this experiment we used a lazy Susan, (or as my husband likes to call it, "lazy J.J.") a ruler, a marker, and a paper plate.


Using the marker and the ruler, one child tried to draw a straight line on the paper plate. I told them that the wind tries to do the same thing, but the Earth just won't stay still! The other child began spinning the lazy Susan around and around to signify the spinning of the Earth. Try as they might, they could not get that marker to make a straight line. It was all over the place!




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5 comments:

  1. Wind play is so much fun! We just did something similar. And I love that you taught your kiddos about the Coriolis effect.

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  2. I loved this idea for your wind steamers. I used it with my preschool class, but instead used plastic streamers. They loved it. Thanks for the idea - while talking about how making our set I linked back to your post as my inspiration source.

    -Julie @ TeachingtheLittlePeople.blogspot.com

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  3. What a great idea! My little baby girl like different things to do and I think this will be enjoyable for me also when I'll see she is doing this.

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