Spinning Tops

Submitted by smileadmin on Tue, 02/16/2010 - 15:37

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  • Science Museum of Minnesota

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Description

Create your own spinning top, and explore color, shapes and spinning. This activity contains instructions for making your spinning top, and tips on how to design and decorate it.

Quick Guide

  • Preparation Time: Under 5 minutes
  • Learning Time: 5 to 10 minutes
  • Estimated materials cost: 1 cent - $1 per student
  • Age Range: Ages 4 - 8
  • Resource Types:
  • Language: English

Materials List (per student)

  • pattern
  • posterboard
  • skewer stick
  • film canister lid
  • hammer
  • nail
  • scrap board
  • goggles
  • low melt glue gun or masking tape
Subjects

Informal Categories

  • Arts and Crafts
  • Toys

Subjects

  • Life Sciences
    • Human Senses and Perception
      • Vision
  • Physical Sciences
    • Light and Optics
      • Sunlight and Color
    • Motion and Forces
      • Rotation Motion
    • Vibration and Waves
      • Light and Optics
  • The Nature of Technology
    • The Design Process
Audience

To use this activity learners need to

  • see
  • see color
  • touch

Learning styles supported

  • Involves hands-on or lab activities
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Learning Technologies Center, Science Museum of Minnesota

Rights

All Rights Reserved, Science Museum of Minnesota, ©1995

Funding sources

  • Unisys
  • Science Learning Network
  • National Science Foundation

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