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Hurray for Stability!
- Grade 3
- Science and Technology
- Understanding Structures and Mechanisms
Description
In this activity, students describe the stability of everyday structures by observing and testing them according to specific criteria: their ability to retain their shape, maintain their balance, float or remain fixed in their location when subjected to a force.
Learning goals
- I describe the stability of a structure by testing it.
Vocabulary
- stable structure
- fixed structure
- usntable structure
- stability
- instability
- balance
- criteria
- solids
- center of gravity
- functions
- factors
- force
- fixed
- load
- location
- keep its shape
- maintain
- support
- float
- test
