Push or Pull the Door

Lab Brief #23

🎯 Your mission

Understand the idea. Then look for it everywhere.

⚡ The twist

Constraints make you more creative, not less.

What you'll learn

A door opens when you push or pull the handle. Which does your door use?

Key words

Make a hypothesis first

Before you test: how many tries until it works?

Say your guess out loud — then find out if you were right.

Step 1 of 4 · Read

Say the vocabulary words out loud. Can you repeat them?

Step 2 of 4 · Do

Push a toy car gently, then push it hard. Which push made it go farther?

Step 3 of 4 · Observe

Look closely! What do you see?

Step 4 of 4 · Record

Draw a picture of what you learned today.

Question 1 of 3

What happens if you push harder?

Question 2 of 3

Can you push a toy car?

Question 3 of 3

If you pull a wagon, does it come toward you?

Mind = blown

🛠️ The first computer bug was a literal moth stuck inside a machine in 1947.

Nice work!

You got 0 of 3 right.

🎯

We'll pick an experiment that matches exactly how you're thinking right now.

✨ More to explore

🌍 Where you see this in real life: Every bridge, building, and gadget you've ever used started with this.

🏆 Stretch challenge (try it this week): Find something that's broken at home and try to figure out *why* it broke.

👨‍👩‍👧 For the dinner table: “What's something around the house you'd redesign — and how?”

Send it to a parent who's looking for a 10-minute kitchen science win.

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