Marble Roller Coaster Project

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

Marble roller coaster project. Create the longest track possible without letting the marble fall off. The roller coaster is a great demonstration of the law of conservation of energy. Roller coasters rely on two types of energy to operate. Ideal for rapid redesigning and exploring the conversion of potential energy to kinetic energy and momentum.

Abstract this is a really fun project even if you don t like going on roller coasters yourself. When you raise the marble you are working against the force of gravity giving the marble potential energy. I d like to note that the concept for this project is not my own but the building and teaching techniques are. In an isolated system such as the roller coaster the total energy remains constant.

Get the lesson plan and project sheet for this activity step 1. Marble roller coasters are fun and easy to build. The marble roller coaster is an open ended challenge. Gravity also make this work.

We re doing the roller coasters. This is a fun project that kids will love and can also learn some science. 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 project reaches a wide span of grade ranges from k 12.