With the goal of making the marbles travel as far as possible get small groups to brainstorm design ideas on their.
Bp challenge marble roll.
Pool noodle marble run use pool noodles to make a simple marble race.
The worst race track was the towel.
The marble had to role close to the target.
Teams of 3 or 4 participants design and build a marble run that keeps a marble rolling for the longest time.
The marble is to be dropped into your marble roller device.
The towel is really rough and has lots of fibres sticking up.
This is a fabulous math and physical science lesson.
Next time you find yourself holding an empty cardboard tube roll.
Release the marble and note the time it takes to get to the bottom of the ramp.
About two seconds.
To make sure you completed it that when the marble rolled on the newspaper it had to roll a meter then hit the target.
Simple to set up easy to do and full of learning possibilities.
Do you save cardboard tubes from paper towels toilet paper and whatever else comes on a roll.
Design a device to roll and aim a marble along the floor to hit a target in the shortest possible time.
Show the class an example of a marble run and go over the worksheet together.
The first appearance of the constellation matariki in the morning sky is portentous.
Energy is everywhere and it changes from one form to another.
Train track marble run if you have a wooden train set thomas or similar this wooden train marble run from this pilgrim life is a brilliant idea.
Give teams 5 minutes to plan their marble run.
Using simple household materials we want you to design a marble run that takes a minute to complete no more.
Each team gets 10 paper tubes 2 cereal boxes 5 cups 1 pair of scissors 1 roll of tape and at least 1 marble.
Use the blocks and the styrofoam strip to set up a ramp.
Matariki te kohinga kai.
Design your ramp so that the marble will take at least 10 seconds to get to the end of the ramp.
Some groups had a tiny ramp that went down then the marble would roll off the desk on to the newspaper on the ground then roll to the target.
If you want to make a marble run work it s best to test it as you go.
Introduce the design challenge.
These fibres grip onto the marble.
What a great rainy day or anytime kind of activity.
Paper towel roll marble run this is a great paper towel toilet paper roll marble run from powerful.
I have quite a collection saved just for the purpose of making a cool cardboard tube marble run on our wall.
Make a marble run.
Are you ready to take on a fun stem challenge.
You might want to keep the incline the same for all groups.
Let s explore how the gravitational energy of a marble changes to kinetic energy as it travels down a cardboard track.
We tested the sections of our diy marble run a few times to work out the angles and distances.