Challenge For A Marble Roller Coaster Project

Your marble must not fall off until it gets to the end of the track.

Challenge for a marble roller coaster project.

Objects on earth always follow the same physical rules. Physics examines and explains those rules. 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.

Introduce the parameters of the design challenge and the vocabulary words criteria and constraints. The criteria are in italics the constraints are in bold a. If a curved track is not banked the marble may fly off of the edge of the track. Roller coasters rely on two types of energy to operate.

Marble run 2 instructions introduce the design challenge. This is a really fun project even if you don t like going on roller coasters yourself. Each team gets 10 paper tubes 2 cereal boxes 5 cups 1 pair of scissors 1 roll of tape and at least 1 marble. Build your own marble roller coaster in this project and find out.

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. 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. Layers of learning has hands on experiments in every unit of this family friendly curriculum.