Equipment:A3 paperBar magnetsCardCompassIron fillingsSamples of a range of metals (including steel, copper and aluminium)
Keep a few iron filings below the A3 paper. ( without the knowledge of the kids) Now keep the magnet slightly above the paper. Kids will notice that the paper flies upward to the magnet. Then you may explain them.
I dont know what the other guy was saying when he said that you don't wanna be flying arou d with no gear! There's nothing wrong with pulling in the clutch! Anyway! It depends on the situation if you want to stop fast I shift down to 1 and let out the clutch all the way than apply both breaks! Don't lock them up though! If you just wanna slow down, I just down shift and maybe the back break
The internet is a really BAD place to learn such a critical skill as braking on a motorcycle. Other skills I would leave to live, in-person training, would be brain surgery, aircraft maintenance, scuba-diving, etc. In other words, TAKE A RIDING COURSE. You are much less likely to get injured or killed.
First try the magnets with various kinds of metals. Which do they attract? You might even go around the room sticking magnets on various metal things to see which are 'ferrous' metals and which not. And explain what 'ferrous' means. Now take two bar magnets and show how they each have a north and south pole, how different poles attract but like poles repel. They make a little demonstrator with two ring magnets on a pole, and when the like poles are together one floats in the air. Bring out the compass and show how the needle acts as a magnet and reacts to other magnets near it. Put it down on top of a bar magnet and see how it aligns itself. So why does it align as it does when there's no magnet near it? The earth itself is a magnet. That's why we can use a magnet for navigation, to tell direction. (When I was a kid, in our science class we magnetized a sewing needle and floated it on a cork in a bowl of water to see how it worked as a compass needle.) Now take a bar magnet and put it beneath a sheet of paper and lightly sprinkle iron filings over the top. The filings fall in a pattern showing the magnetic field, and you can see the 'lines of flux'. These make the magnetic field of the magnet visible. You can measure the strength of the magnet by counting the lines of flux.
