Spin Tops wherever you are in the world on Wednesday, Oct 14, 2020 & let us know how many spins for the worldwide total! >> Spin again & again, help us get at least 10,000 spins!
This is the 20th year of this free worldwide spinning event, created by the Spinning Top & Yo-Yo Museum!
Afterwards, participants are asked to please send an email to thetopmuseum@hotmail.com and small jpg. photos of their participation for documentation of this worldwide event. Information should include your name or the name of the coordinator of the spinning, if a group: the group name and ages; city, state, country, how many people participated, how many tops were used, and HOW MANY SPINS! plus comments made. ---Selected information and summaries may be used on the Spinning Top Museum website. The totals will be added to the world-wide total of spins.
A FEW PHOTOS FROM THE PAST: http://www.topmuseum.org/20.html
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Here is a ton of more details, if you want to know more:
International Top Spinning Day Celebrates ‘our Earth is a Top’
EVERYWHERE AROUND THE WORLD
Around the world, wherever you are, Wednesday, October 14, 2020 is a day to celebrate a spinning physics fact, because ‘the Earth is a Top!” To recognize this scientific fact, people will be spinning tops all around the world as part of the 20th annual event called International Top Spinning Day.
EARTH SPINS
“The earth spins around a single axis, just as toy spinning tops and yo-yos do,” said Judith Schulz, so the earth is actually a big top!” Schulz, Spinning Top & Yo-Yo Museum founder, created this event 20 years ago. In addition to people spinning tops locally and in other countries, there will also be a Zoom event that day with info on the museum website. Past participants in the event have been from Hawaii to Poland, Italy to England; and all around the United States, and even at the Burlington Public Library.
ADULTS & KIDS
Everyone: adults, students and children may take part as an individual, family, class or group. Seniors, science labs, math and art classes, libraries, universities, day cares, and CEOs are all invited to take a spin. Just take one or more tops and spin them again and again to get a large total of spins which will be added to the total from around the world. The museum’s goal is 10,000 or more spins in total.
RECOMMENDED BY
The event has been recommended by the National Science Foundation, Nick Jr. Magazine, Family Fun Magazine, many newspapers and on several radio stations. National Public Radio has discussed the event and scientific terms related to spinning and rotation physics, which shows the importance of the topic. “We just received a lengthy call for a scientist in Israel about the event,” added Schulz.
SCHOOL
Math classes might graph results, total information, time the spins; science teachers use it for using terms of rotation, balance, inertia; reading teachers use it to make lists of things that spin and writing about International Top Spinning Day; art teachers incorporate it into an action lesson in optical effects, and many classroom use it as a fun exercise in record keeping, observation skills, and organization.
SEND YOUR TOTALS.
Afterwards, participants are asked to please send an email to thetopmuseum@hotmail.com and small jpg. photos of their participation for documentation of this worldwide event. Information should include the name of the coordinator of the spinning, the group name and ages, city, state, country, how many people participated, how many tops were used, and how many spins, plus comments made. Selected information and summaries may be used on the Spinning Top Museum website. The totals will be added to the world-wide total of spins.
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Not only is the event held around the world, but there is a free, top spinning activity at the Spinning Top Museum, downtown Burlington; anytime between 11 and 1 pm that day. Participants may drop in anytime to spin the tops and add to the total world spins. Masks are required.
EVERY YEAR
The worldwide event is held annually, on the second Wednesday of October.
AND IN BURLINGTON, WI
For those who wish to visit the non-profit, educational Spinning Top & Yo-Yo Museum during October; it is open by appointment for small groups of 4-8 people, with social distancing and other precautions. The combination program, tour and workshop is for adults and children, ages 4-104.
More information about the event, zoom option, or making an actual visit is on the website www.topmuseum.org and the museum’s Facebook page.
The museum is at 533 Milwaukee Av, Burlington, WI. Call 262 763-3946 for more info. Parking is free
