Materials:
Purpose: The purpose of this experiment was to see if the line created by the sharpie would go into a curved line while spinning the balloon which was acting as the Earth.
Instructions:
Questions and Answers:
- Balloon
- Sharpie
Purpose: The purpose of this experiment was to see if the line created by the sharpie would go into a curved line while spinning the balloon which was acting as the Earth.
Instructions:
- Blow up a balloon
- With a marker, draw the equator on the balloon and label where the north and south pole is.
- Hold the balloon and rotate it left to right
Questions and Answers:
- As you look down from the north pole toward the equator, which way is the balloon spinning, clockwise or counterclockwise? It is spinning clockwise.
- As you look up from the South Pole toward the equator, which way is the balloon spinning, clockwise or counterclockise? It is spinning counterclockwise.
- What happened when you tried to draw a straight line from the North Pole to the equator? The line curved a different way.