STEM Project Forces and Motion Roller Coaster Activity Engineering Digital

This lab is EASY PREP, it's hands-on, students are engaged, it includes many physics concepts, it’s STEM, AND you get two of my top selling products in one!

I include detailed TEACHER NOTES, Digital and Print student copy, a Digital and Print Kinetic and Potential Energy Card Sort, an Energy Conversion Chart and a KEY for easy grading and prep.

Students use parts of the engineering design process to get their marble to stop by using friction, just like a real roller coaster. Students pretend like they are engineers trying to get a contract from Knott’s Berry Farm to build a fun and safe roller coaster!

Materials:

Tubing/Plumbing insulation from Home Depot, marbles, masking tape, meter sticks and timers (I let them use their phones).

THIS INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING CONCEPTS:

Kinetic energy, potential energy, rolling friction, fluid friction, static friction, momentum, gravity, acceleration and centripetal force and engineering.

TIMELINE FOR THE STEM ROLLER COASTER LAB

1) USING PREZI DO 20 MINUTES OF NOTES AND CLASS DISCUSSION.

2) CARD SORT AND CLASS DISCUSSION 20 MINUTES OR 50 MINUTES IF YOU DO CARD SORT, CLASS DISCUSSION AND FILL IN THE ENERGY CONVERSIONS HANDOUT.

3) 30 MINUTES DISCUSSING, SKETCHING AND DESIGNING PROTOTYPE.

4) 15 MINUTES OF MODELING & TIPS. THEN 1 HOUR 30 MINUTES OF BUILDING & COLLECTING DATA.

5) QUESTIONS AND SKETCHES ARE HOMEWORK.

6) 40 MINUTES OF GRADING, DISCUSSING, REVISTING AND ADDRESSING MISCONCEPTIONS WITH THE CLASS.

Disciplinary Core Ideas (DCI):

PS2.A:  Forces and Motion

• The motion of an object is determined by the sum of the forces acting on it; if the total force on the object is not zero, its motion will change. The greater the mass of the object, the greater the force needed to achieve the same change in motion. For any given object, a larger force causes a larger change in motion. (MS-PS2-2)

• All positions of objects and the directions of forces and motions must be described in an arbitrarily chosen reference frame and arbitrarily chosen units of size. In order to share information with other people, these choices must also be shared. (MS-PS2-2)

PS2.B:  Types of Interactions

• Forces that act at a distance (electric, magnetic, and gravitational) can be explained by fields that extend through space and can be mapped by their effect on a test object (a charged object, or a ball, respectively).(MS-PS2-5)

• Gravitational forces are always attractive. There is a gravitational force between any two masses, but it is very small except when one or both of the objects have large mass—e.g., Earth and the sun.(MS-PS2-4)

Crosscutting Concepts:

-Cause and Effect

-Systems and System Models

-Energy and Matter: Flows, Cycles, and Conservation

-Structure and Function

Science and Engineering Practices:

-Asking Questions and Defining Problems

-Developing and Using Models

-Carrying Out Investigations

-Analyzing and Interpreting Data

-Using Mathematics and Computational Thinking

-Constructing Explanations and Designing Solutions

-Obtaining, Evaluating, and Communicating Information

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