Marble Roller Coaster Project

Create the longest track possible without letting the marble fall off.

Marble roller coaster project.

The marble roller coaster is an open ended challenge. 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. In an isolated system such as the roller coaster the total energy remains constant. Abstract this is a really fun project even if you don t like going on roller coasters yourself.

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. Gravity also make this work. This project reaches a wide span of grade ranges from k 12. Marble roller coasters are fun and easy to build.

This is a fun project that kids will love and can also learn some science. 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. This project has a few things that help this work.

Gravitational potential energy and kinetic energy. Build your own marble roller coaster in this project and find out. We re doing the roller coasters. Roller coasters rely on two types of energy to operate.