Spinning top is a fun way to learn the concepts of motion, symmetry, and balance. Making their own spinning tops helps them to explore how does it work. What happened if you put the pencil to the side or place the cardboard on the top of the pencil. The process can help them develop basic scientific skills, start an hypothesis and test it out. Let's make one together.
You will need
A Piece of Cardboard
A Circle Object to draw a circle with
A pencil
A pair of Scissors
Crayons to decorate
Let's do it
- Draw a circle on a cardboard by tracing the circle object.
- Use the scissor to cut the circle out. Be careful the scissors are sharp.
- Decorate.
- Make a hole in the middle of the cardboard, put a pencil through the hole.
- Spin!
What do they learn from the spinning top?
- Children can improve their fine motor skills. Twirling the stem of the top using the their fingers help them develop pincer grasp and dexterity. These skills can also benefit children with writing skill later. When they write, they need to manipulation and use the pencil with one hand.
- Children can learn physical science by observing the top spin, or wobble. A spinning top is designed to spin rapidly with its rotational inertia. Don't worry, we haven't gone that far with Miss Two and Mr Four yet.
- Tops are designed to be symmetry, which is a sense of harmonious and beautiful proportion and balance. Symmetry can be found in many areas, mathematic, physics, chemistry, biology, architecture, visual arts, music, and much more. Learning about symmetry can help them understand
- Making their own spinning tops helps them to explore how does it work. By providing them choices, they can try different way of making it. They can try making it big or small, using short/long/big/small pencil for the stem, or decorate it however they like. They can also try with different designs, what happened if they put the pencil to the side or place the cardboard on the top of the pencil. Then they can observe how their tops spin. Does it work? What are the colour of the tops look like? Mr Four found out that if he put the cardboard too high on the pencil, it didn't spin very well. The process can help them develop basic scientific skills, start a hypothesis and test it out.
Let's watch our children made spinning tops.
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