Make Your Own Pendulum Activity
Pendulum reading and build page: students learn what a pendulum is and how its swing has been used to keep time, then follow four steps to make one from a pencil, string and a weight.
- Grades
- Grades 3–6, Elementary, Middle School
- File type
- Preparation
- Print ready
- Subject
- Science, Physics
- Topic
- physical science, pendulum
- Resource types
- Activities
- Preparation
- Print ready
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This is a Make Your Own Pendulum Activity.
This printable will give students information about pendulums and then provide instructions for how they can make their own.
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In the classroom
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Learning objectives
- Describe what a pendulum is and how its swing can keep time
- Build a simple pendulum by following numbered steps
Teaching tips
- The build tapes a pencil to a table edge and a sheet of paper behind the string to mark release points, so choose a table edge where the weight can swing freely.
Skills covered
- Following a procedure — assembling a pendulum from four written steps
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Core concepts
- Pendulum
- Oscillation
- Gravity
- Timekeeping
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