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Pour paper clips into a lifted bowl

Pour paper clips into a lifted bowl setup

Objects

  • one light ceramic bowl about 15 cm across
  • an open cardboard box of steel paper clips, roughly half full

Setup

  1. Place the bowl upright on the left half of the bench, about a bowl-width in from the left arm base.
  2. Place the open paper clip box on the right half, about level with the bowl, opening facing up.

Instruction

Lift the left bowl in the air and pour some paper clips from the paper clip box into the bowl.

Rubric

Stage Description
0 No purposeful contact with bowl or box
1 Touches or moves the bowl or the box deliberately
2 Bowl lifted and held clear of the table
3 Box lifted and tilted over the bowl (pour attempted)
4 At least one paper clip in the bowl, bowl and box released

Human demonstration