Marble Roller Coaster Project

When you raise the marble you are working against the force of gravity giving the marble potential energy.

Marble roller coaster project.

Build your own marble roller coaster in this project and find out. Abstract this is a really fun project even if you don t like going on roller coasters yourself. Gravitational potential energy and kinetic energy. We re doing the roller coasters.

Marble roller coasters are fun and easy to build. Roller coasters rely on two types of energy to operate. This is a fun project that kids will love and can also learn some science. 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. I d like to note that the concept for this project is not my own but the building and teaching techniques are. Get the lesson plan and project sheet for this activity step 1. In an isolated system such as the roller coaster the total energy remains constant.

This project reaches a wide span of grade ranges from k 12. This project has a few things that help this work. The marble roller coaster is an open ended challenge. The roller coaster is a great demonstration of the law of conservation of energy.