First, students will collaborate with small movements illustrating motion and force through push and pull motions together.
Next we add momentum using gestures and repetitive motions. Students will connect with one another physically using critical thinking to problem solve how one movement leads to another. Students take one step at a time where balance and support are integral to building trust and confidence.
Next students will learn how to balance feathers, move objects through the air and connect motion, force, and momentum to these activities.
Finally, the students work in small groups to create a machine, for example, an assembly line with the juggling balls using the elements we addressed motion, force, and momentum.
The teaching artist helps students to make connections between moving and balancing objects with the physics properties of motion, force, and momentum. Students will understand in larger ways how to relate physics through circus skills including prop manipulation and balance.
