Challenge For A Marble Roller Coaster Project

Each team gets 10 paper tubes 2 cereal boxes 5 cups 1 pair of scissors 1 roll of tape and at least 1 marble.

Challenge for a marble roller coaster project.

Learn more about layers of learning. Physics examines and explains those rules. A marble travelling forward will continue moving in that direction because of it s momentum. In roller coaster construction this is called track banking this is a good opportunity to explain the negative effects of momentum.

Gravitational potential energy and kinetic energy. If a curved track is not banked the marble may fly off of the edge of the track. Marble run 2 instructions introduce the design challenge. 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. This is a really fun project even if you don t like going on roller coasters yourself. The criteria are in italics the constraints are in bold a. 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. The marble roller coaster challenge is a physics experiment from unit 1 7 about motion. Build your own marble roller coaster in this project and find out. Your marble must not fall off until it gets to the end of the track.