Balance: Science Fun

A couple weeks go we did some experimenting with balance to see if we could use counterweights to make a sharpened pencil balance on a Popsicle stick.

Check out some pictures of us experimenting different ways to arrange the counterweights.

We learned that the counterweights must be low, not high, because otherwise the object will be top heavy and fall over. We also learned that the counterweights help to balance the object better if they are symmetrical.

Yay science!