Thursday's Classroom lessons engage both sides of the brain to maximize learning. They can also convert these ideas into clever Valentine's cards. By watching the movement of sunspots across the Sun, Galileo discovered that our star turned on its axis once every 27 days. This simple activity reinforces the rotation period of the Sun for younger students. In this activity students build an edible Leaning Tower of Pisa using cookies and whipped cream.
Advanced students can calculate angles and match the tilt of their tower to that of the real one.
His greatest legacy was the introduction of experimentation as a means of understanding the physical world. In this open-ended activity, students invent their own experiments to understand how fast things fall and how pendulums work. You are visitor number Error. All rights reserved.