Challenge For A Marble Roller Coaster Project

The criteria are in italics the constraints are in bold a.

Challenge for a marble roller coaster project.

Gravitational potential energy and kinetic energy. Teams of 3 or 4 participants design and build a marble run that keeps a marble rolling for the longest time. Layers of learning has hands on experiments in every unit of this family friendly curriculum. Your marble must not fall off until it gets to the end of the track.

Each team gets 10 paper tubes 2 cereal boxes 5 cups 1 pair of scissors 1 roll of tape and at least 1 marble. In roller coaster construction this is called track banking this is a good opportunity to explain the negative effects of momentum. Physics examines and explains those rules. Introduce the parameters of the design challenge and the vocabulary words criteria and constraints.

This is a really fun project even if you don t like going on roller coasters yourself. Marble run 2 instructions introduce the design challenge. The marble roller coaster challenge is a physics experiment from unit 1 7 about motion. Objects on earth always follow the same physical rules.

You ll build a roller coaster track for marbles using foam pipe insulation and masking tape and see how much of an initial drop is required to get the marble to loop the loop. Build a roller coaster with 2 hills and one loop. Build your own marble roller coaster in this project and find out. A marble travelling forward will continue moving in that direction because of it s momentum.