Allow 2 minutes near end of class for students to try each others coasters.
Marble roller coaster build.
Arrange plenty of space in your room cleanup.
Gravity also make this work.
One of them is one of newton s laws of motion that says that an object in motion will stay in motion and an object in rest will stay in rest.
Gravitational potential energy and kinetic energy.
The foam tubing roller.
The way you design the coaster is up to you so get creative and challenge yourself to make your ride as fun fast and safe as possible.
The lesson plan difficulty.
Then have everyone gently take apart only their own roller coaster and clump all the used tape into a giant tape ball start of class lecture.
In an isolated system such as the roller coaster the total energy remains constant.
This project has a few things that help this work.
You can build your own mini marble roller coaster using simple materials like popsicle sticks aluminum foil and a styrofoam base.
Build your own marble roller coaster in this project and find out.
When you raise the marble you are working against the force of gravity giving the marble potential energy.
Identify the two parts.
Roller coasters rely on two types of energy to operate.