Young Scientist | Making fun spinning magnetic cup

in #steemiteducation6 years ago (edited)

Hi Steemians, I hope this post finds you well and healthy.

As a mother, I love having activities with children whenever possible. And today, I want to share one simple and fun experiment that you can do it together with your children aged 5 to 8 years old. My son learned it from school as he is in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematic) club now. We noticed our boy loved to fix and build things since young, and now that he is 7 years old and there is STEM club at his school for him to join, so we, as parents are overjoyed. Enrol him straight away!


Magnetic Spinning Cup

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Materials to prepare:

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  1. Two ice-cream sticks
  2. Wire (diameter 0.1cm) (length 15cm-20cm)
  3. Cellophone tape
  4. Double-sided tape
  5. A piece of paper
  6. Two buttons magnets
  7. One ping pong (table tennis) ball (any colour)
  8. One transparent PVC book cover
  9. Blade
  10. Colour pencils or water colour

Steps:

  1. Cut the ping-pong (table tennis) ball into half using blade. This should be done by mummy or daddy, not the child. 🙂

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  2. Place one button magnet into the ball, place it at the center. And secure it with the cellophone tape.

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  3. Cut out a circle (diameter from 5cm to 5.5cm) from a white piece of paper.

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  4. Stick the half pingpong ball on the circle paper. To do this, you lay over double-sided tape across the diameter of the ball. Stick the ball onto the paper via the double-sided tape.

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  5. Colour the circle paper if you want to. Or just draw a smiley will do. Here you will see mine is with some colour tones.

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  6. Stick the 2nd button magnet on the tip of the ice-cream stick.

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  7. Bend the wire so that it forms into few curves. You can curve anyhow you want.

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  8. Stick the wire on the PVC book cover with tape.

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  9. For another ice-cream stick, you can use it as a label. My son of course want to label his name. You may stick the label on the PVC book cover too. However, this step is optional.

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  10. Place the ice-cream stick with button magnet on the bottom side of the cover, at any part of the wire.

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  11. Place the pingpong ball on top of the ice-cream stick, ensuring the magnet from the stick and the magnet from the ball meet each other.

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  12. Use hand-eye coordination and move the stick according to the curve of the wire. You will see the half ping pong ball a.k.a. the magnetic cup spins as it moves, and the picture on the paper spins too!

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  13. Have fun!


Benefits of this experiment

  1. You and your child can learn about magnet and magnetism, which I will write in another blog next time.
  2. The whole process of the experiment requires some hand-eye coordination and motor skills. From cutting, to sticking, to colouring, to bending the wire, and to following the curve of the wire, it helps you and your child to improve cognitive skills and sensory motor skills.
  3. You are building young scientist at home.
  4. Good for parent-child bonding.
  5. Kill time.
  6. No mess! Except be extra careful during cutting the pingpong ball into half
  7. Can keep the experiment for memory and/or souvenir.

Hope you enjoy your journey here and thank you for reading.


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I think when you have kids, there's a lot of fun things you can do it together.

Yes. Indeed. And I learn alot from them too. ;)

Indeed. :P

The STEM club is cool. There are many experiments he did but I just have no time to document all. Thank you @kchitrah for dropping by. ;)

We do the best we can, and that is enough. ;) Enjoy the rest of your week.

This is really interesting and fun. Thank you for sharing this little fun with us, @iamjadeline! It's nice to hear him really enjoying school! :)

Yes every Friday he came home with new thing. There is even table fan but I havent documented it as need to scout the item. Need wire positive and negative one. Etc.

Cool, wanna have a try when i have time. Thanks for sharing..

Sure thing. Dance on and steem on @bboyady;)

Ya, long time no dance already. Need 2nd vlog liao

It seems like lots of fun there :D

PS: Your son's Chinese name - 黄天应,it's such an awesome name! A call from the sky...

Yes that is the meaning. or to be more the response from heaven ;) thank you @wilhb81 🙂

Nice! Thinking of any other Thing to replace the ping Pong ball .

Yes, actually me too. Quite difficult to cut it into half. lol

This is really cool, but I mostly like the fact that you took the time to do such an interesting activity with your kids - excellent way to bond!

Actually I had fun myself. Haha. He did it once at school and we did it again at home. I was having fun time myself and he was the one taught me. Lol

That's a very good project for kids. It's a good way to help kids initiate their thinking from the hands-on project than sticking their face to the books. Good work :)

An amazing experiment for the toddlers but I think I would be enjoying doing it myself lol. Develop your kid and for sure he will be a very successful engineer one day as the possibilities are endless.

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