Update
10-20-2015
Content Type
Multimedia
Grade Level
Third grade, Fourth grade, Fifth grade, Sixth grade, Seventh grade, Eighth grade, Ninth grade, Tenth grade, Eleventh grade, Twelfth grade
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Interactive
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In “Balancing Act”, students predict how objects of various masses can be used to make a plank balance; predict how changing the positions of the masses on the plank will affect the motion of the plank; and write rules to predict which way a plank will tilt when objects are placed on it.

Created by:

PhET Interactive Simulations

University of Colorado Boulder

https://phet.colorado.edu