The Great Ping Pong Ball Experiment - Children's Story

This whimsical, animated children's story was written to get children to think about the concept of potential energy. Grateful thanks to Kimberly Race, of Oklahoma City, for illustrating, animating and narrating this story. For other children's stories I've written, see http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html

Note - the vector graphics in this animated story were drawn using Adobe Flash, but they could have been created using the free Inkscape vector drawing program. Inkscape rules. See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrO_GMNhQSA

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Category:

Education

Tags:

• ping
• pong
• ball
• Nile
• River
• physics
• potential
• energy
• whimsy
• iPad

[MsPurplemermaid]

Nice. I'm sending it to friends with grandchildren.

[wendellpeek]

Certainly one brave ping pong ball...

[yea78861]

very cool 

tim

[couchpotatotheatre]

great video. Really liked it.

[Mandolin1944]

very cool story with an unanticipated ending and lesson. 5 stars definately!

[russbuss415]

great story Phil and very well illustrated/narrated by Ms Rice.

[poolph01]

Great analogy.... cool

[HDSM25]

Very entertaining and interesting video. It's a curious experiment.