Wednesday October 7 is National Youth Science Day. Cuming County Extension will lead our after-school students grades 3-6 in "Motion Commotion."
Students will conduct the two-part “Motion Commotion” experiment on Wednesday October 7 at Bancroft Rosalie After School program, where they will use every day materials – including a toy car, modeling clay, ruler, calculator and cell phone – to explore physics in the real-world. In the first phase, youth will construct a simulated runway to analyze the speed, momentum and kinetic energy of a car in motion, and will explore the science behind the car’s collisions. In the second phase, they will lead an experiment that uses the same physics principles to demonstrate the consequences of distracted driving.
