Balanced

A cow tips the balance of destiny in search of friendship in this humorous, award-winning short film for children by Verena Fels. 

From Common sense Media, sing along with the Digital Citizens about the importance of media balance, learning how to be mindful of their tech use and how it makes them feel. 

An animation from Headspace (a meditation App) that talks about How to Deal with Anxiety from Change, not by negating the difficulty or the seriousness of the situation, but by staying connected to the idea of balance. 

Gail Cardew and her daughters, Xanthe, Roxana and Evanthia do science at home. In this experiment, they build increasingly complicated balancing structures to investigate the science of stability and balance. They discover how lowering an object’s center of mass can affect its balance. Using skewer sticks, candy, fruits and vegetables they get a taste for how important balance is when building everything from sports cars to skyscrapers. By tweaking and developing their designs they perfect their beautiful creations and create increasingly ambitious structures. 

Watch Lewis Matheson, a physics teacher and YouTuber at @Physics Online, explain the science behind tensegrity sculptures, which seem to defy gravity. In this video he uses Lego to create a tensegrity sculpture.