Students will review their knowledge of tension and focus on tensile loads and failure caused by them.

Students use balloons (a polymer) to explore preconditioning a viscoelastic material behavior that is important to understand when designing biomedical devices. They improve their understanding of preconditioning by measuring the force needed to stretch a balloon to the same displacement multiple times. Students gain experience in data collection and graph interpretation.

Students will listen to a book read by the teacher about forest animals and the yoga poses they perform.