Glowing Pendulum

Grades 3-5
Grades 6-8

$27.954.6

Build out this pendulum kit to explore chaotic motion. Watch patterns emerge on your glow board with the UV light. Includes a step-by-step video tutorial link, illustrated blueprint instructions, all the materials, and a special-edition Tinker Zine magazine for more fun!

Academic Standards

1-PS4-2: Waves and Their Applications in Technologies for information transfer

Additional details

Tinker Crate develops kids’ natural creativity and curiosity using STEM (“Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math”) principles while saving time for busy parents. Our mission is to help kids use STEM as a key to creative problem solving, a foundation for critical thinking, and a pipeline to innovation. Your monthly crate includes all the materials and inspiration for science and engineering projects such as: trebuchet, paper circuits and walking robot.

Tinker Crate encourages hands-on learning for kids between the ages of 9 to 14. With activities designed to help kids discover, explore, and create things in the world around them, Tinker Crate brings hands-on fun right to your door.

From the desk of the product designer:

Behind the design

“We wanted to create a project that investigated the beautiful, chaotic motion of a double pendulum. Adding a light at the tip of the pendulum and some glow paper underneath was the perfect combo to bring it to life!”

- KiwiCo Product Designer

By the numbers

8

Pendulums tested

7

Glow paper prototypes

15

Largest audience crammed in a dark bathroom to watch a prototype

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