Fourth Grade
Worksheets
Slinky: The Dropped Spring
"What walks down stairs, alone or in pairs, and makes a slinkity sound? A spring, a spring, a marvelous thing, everyone knows it's Slinky...It's Slinky, it's Slinky, for fun it's a wonderful toy. It's Slinky, it's Slinky, it's fun for a girl and a boy." That jingle helped to make Richard and Betty James's invention famous. They invented the Slinky.
The Slinky is a spring-like toy. It travels end over end down stairs or other inclined planes. Slinkys were first made in the 1940s. They were made of ninety-eight coils of steel. The first Slinky was sold in 1945. In the last sixty years, the Slinky has changed very little. Today they are made from eighty feet of wire. Crimps .....
