Challenge For A Marble Roller Coaster Project

Build your own marble roller coaster in this project and find out.

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. In roller coaster construction this is called track banking this is a good opportunity to explain the negative effects of momentum. Your marble must not fall off until it gets to the end of the track. 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.

This is a really fun project even if you don t like going on roller coasters yourself. A marble travelling forward will continue moving in that direction because of it s momentum. 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.

Learn more about layers of learning. Build a roller coaster with 2 hills and one loop. Objects on earth always follow the same physical rules. Physics examines and explains those rules.

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. The criteria are in italics the constraints are in bold a. Roller coasters rely on two types of energy to operate.