Roller coasters rely on two types of energy to operate.
Challenge for a marble roller coaster project.
Teams of 3 or 4 participants design and build a marble run that keeps a marble rolling for the longest time.
A marble travelling forward will continue moving in that direction because of it s momentum.
Objects on earth always follow the same physical rules.
Build your own marble roller coaster in this project and find out.
The criteria are in italics the constraints are in bold a.
Physics examines and explains those rules.
In roller coaster construction this is called track banking this is a good opportunity to explain the negative effects of momentum.
Introduce the parameters of the design challenge and the vocabulary words criteria and constraints.
The marble roller coaster challenge is a physics experiment from unit 1 7 about motion.
Learn more about layers of learning.
Gravitational potential energy and kinetic energy.
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.
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.
Each team gets 10 paper tubes 2 cereal boxes 5 cups 1 pair of scissors 1 roll of tape and at least 1 marble.