Top Spinning for Over 50 Minutes

Description:  The top in this video continues spinning for 50 minutes with a single push. As amazing as that is it is still over six hours short of the world record. Students could design and test tops of their own that utilize either pushes or pulls.

Web Resources:  Spinning top - Wikipedia, Making a top that spins for 5 minutes - Instructables

This is my experimental top Nr. 15. It is an evolution and an extreme version of my top Nr. 10, which I expose here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rKrnUv6g8w In that video I explain what I have devised to make that top spin for a long time, and those considerations are still valid for the Nr.

Caine’s Arcade

Description:  Caine's Arcade is a short video detailing the summer when 9-year old Caine Monroy built an arcade in his father's auto shop. This video went viral and inspired the Cardboard Challenge through which thousands of students have created arcades of their own. As long as the arcade games created change the speed or direction of an object with a push or a pull (e.g. a pinball machine) they can be used as an engineering challenge in this unit on pushes and pulls.

Web Resource:  Caine's Arcade: A boy's cardboard arcade that inspired the world

I went to get my car fixed and met this 9 year old kid who built a cardboard arcade in his dad's auto shop: http://CainesArcade.com *UPDATES: THANK YOU everyone who chipped in to Caine's Scholarship Fund! Over $240,000 has been raised for Caine!!!

Amazing Rube Goldberg Machines

Description:  Rube Goldberg machines are named after American cartoonist Rube Goldberg who drew complicated steps involved in doing a fairly simple task (like pouring milk in a glass). Students can study these machines, or build their own, to show how energy can be converted through a series of interactions. In lower elementary classes they might be shown or built to show how pushes or pulls can change the motion of objects. As they move through school they should start to identify specific collisions, interactions, and conversions of energy.

Web Resources:  Rube Goldberg Machines - Wikipedia

http://www.2dhouse.com/rubegoldbergmachines.php - This was a fun short Rube Goldberg Machine we produced in house. Mostly an experiment but definitely quite interesting and very rewarding to create. We hope you enjoy :).

From the OK Go album "Of the Blue Colour of the Sky" available at http://www.okgo.net/store Director: James Frost, OK Go and Syyn Labs. Producer: Shirley Moyers. The official video for the recorded version of "This Too Shall Pass" off the album "Of the Blue Colour of the Sky".

Amazing Slinky Tricks

Description:  The Slinky was invented by Richard James, an engineer, who was working with springs to support and stabilize equipment on a ship. Simple slinky tricks show how forces (pushes and pulls) change the direction of an object. Students can design a set of stairs, or obstacles, that the Slinky can navigate. In the secondary science classroom it can be used to investigate inertia, oscillations, and Hooke's law. This phenomenon can also be used to investigate wave properties.

Web Resource:  Slinky - Wikipedia

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Building the slinky escalator for never ending slinky stair traversal. http://woodgears.ca/toys/slinky.html

Perplexus Epic 1-125 Demonstration

Description:  In this video YouTuber UncleDaver safely navigates challenges 1-125. This toy shows how pushes and pulls can be used to change the motion of an object. It is a much simpler version of a Rube Goldberg device. A simple version of the perplexus can be build using a box, marble, tape and blocks.

Web Resources: Perplexus website

This is a close up demonstration of how to navigate all 125 Perplexus Epic stages... without a drop! You can do this!!