Focus Question:
How can a tablecloth be pulled off a set table without breaking anything?
Draw: Using technical writing tool visuals:
What you observed before & what you observed afterwards.
- Draw your item placement.
- Document what happens before and after pulling the tablecloth.
- Explain why you thought that happened (see guiding questions).
- Change just one variable at a time for each trial.
- Complete 2 more trials. Tablecloth Guiding Questions
- Which objects moved more than others?
- What characteristic about the object caused it to move?
- Why did the objects fall in some cases?
- Which objects stayed put?
- What characteristic about the object prevented movement?