Spinning Flags | Telugu |
Channel: Arvind Gupta
Date: 29/12/2014

These spinners really spin well. To make them you require 4 card squares, a spoke and four stiff straws. Take 4 cards squares 5-cm on edge. Make a half cut on a stiff straw 3-cm from one end. Make 4 card stoppers with a hole in the center. Apply rubber glue diagonally on the back side of the squares and stick the long end of the straw. This is the back view and the front view of the flag. You need to make four such flags – with straws attached to them. Now place the card stopper in a cycle spoke and then weave one flag. The straw should be loose in the spoke. Then alternately place stoppers and the flags. Finally there will be four stoppers and four flags. Insert a bead on the top of the spoke. Now place the model under a ceiling fan. Air will strike the fans. Some flags will spin in the clockwise and the others in the anti-clockwise direction. This work was supported by IUCAA and Tata Trust. This film was made by Ashok Rupner TATA Trust: Education is one of the key focus areas for Tata Trusts, aiming towards enabling access of quality education to the underprivileged population in India. To facilitate quality in teaching and learning of Science education through workshops, capacity building and resource creation, Tata Trusts have been supporting Muktangan Vigyan Shodhika (MVS), IUCAA's Children’s Science Centre, since inception. To know more about other initiatives of Tata Trusts, please visit www.tatatrusts.org