Thanks to Sid the Science Kid, we did another cool science experiment. This one was not in my lesson plans, but Handsome saw the episode of Sid the Science Kid and wanted to do it. So of course we learned about Elasticity! Elasticity is when force is applied to an object and then removed, how fast, if at all, will the object return to its original shape. Since some things are very elastic but it is hard to see it with our eyes, we test it with bouncing it on the floor. I got the experiment from here. Handsome and Gorgeous picked out many of our balls and made predictions. Then we dropped the balls from the same height in our kitchen and marked how high they bounced with painters tape on the cupboard doors.
We learned that the play dough ball had the least amount of elasticity, bounced the least, and the bouncy ball had the most, bounced the highest. Then we documented our discoveries in our science journal. I'm loving science!
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