Wind Gyro

Students can use the Wind Gyro to develop a simple sketch, drawing, or physical model to illustrate how the shape of an object helps it function as needed to solve a given problem.

Students can use the Wind Gyro to plan and conduct an investigation to compare the effects of different strengths or different directions of pushes and pulls on an object's motion.

Students can use the Wind Gyro to plan and conduct an investigation to analyze data to determine if a design solution works as intended to change the speed or direction of an object with a push or a pull.

Students can use the Wind Gyro to plan and conduct an investigation to provide evidence that vibrating materials can make sound and that sound can make materials vibrate.

Students can use the Wind Gyro to plan and conduct an investigation to determine the effects of placing objects made with different materials into the path of a beam of light.

Using the Wind Gyro students can plan and conduct an investigation to provide evidence of the effects of balanced and unbalanced forces on an object's motion.

Using the Wind Gyro students can make observations and/or take measurements of an object's motion to provide evidence that a pattern can be used to predict future motion.

Using the Wind Gyro students can conduct an investigation and use evidence to construct an explanation relating the speed of an object to the energy of that object

Using the Wind Gyro students can apply scientific ideas to design, test, and refine a device that converts energy from one form to another.

Using the Wind Gyro students can make observations and measurements to identify materials based on their properties

Using the Wind Gyro students can plan and carry out fair tests in which variables are controlled and failure points are considered to identify aspects of a model or prototype that can be improved.

Students can use the Wind Gyro to plan an investigation to provide evidence that the change in an object's motion depends on the sum of the forces on the object and its mass.

Using the Wind Gyro, students can investigate and analyze data to support the claim that Newton's Second Law of Motion describes the mathematical relationship among the net force on a macroscopic object, its mass, and its acceleration.

Using the Wind Gyro, students can design, build, and refine a device that works with given constraints to convert one form of energy into another form of energy.