The Trick Crayfish

Using a crayfish shape and clothespins for the materials in this science experiment, the children continued with their investigative approach to learning about balance. Their assignment was to locate 3 different points of balance while utilizing the clothespins as weights. They mapped each point and the positions of the clothespins.

Some of the comments made by the children:

"I did it!"

"Try it this way!"

"Look, look! Come and see what I can do!"

"Weight helped with balancing. The tops balanced with more weight at the bottom and the crayfish balanced with weight placed at the bottom, too!"