Click link below to see exciting introduction video!!!!
Newton and Me Trailer...
This week ALL GRADES are assigned the same activity!
This is a required assignment.
If you have a brother or sister, you can do this project TOGETHER. It is also fine if parents (or grandparents) or older siblings join in!
FIRST...listen...
For kindergarten and first grade, click on the title to listen to this story:
Run Home Little Mouse
Little Mouse sure has to run in many
directions to get safely home. Use the
engineering design process to help
guide the mouse by designing a toilet
paper tube marble run to guide her home!*
* Adapted from project byCarla Billips, Buncombe County STEM Director
For 2nd, 3rd, and 4th grade, click on the title to listen to this story:
Newton and Me
Your job is to build a marble run on a wall, or 3D. Build it so that your marble can move efficiently and without being touched. Are there ways that you can SLOW, or SPEED up the marble as it travels? Can you construct it so that your marble goes up hill or in a loop for part of the run?Make the run have one START place and one END spot.
SECOND...watch
Watch the video by clicking on these marbles to see how to do the project.
If you want some inspiration, click these links to see some really cool marble runs. Some are too complicated for you to build, but are REALLY fun to watch!!!
3D Marble Run
Wall Run with Milk Jug and Bell
Little Boy with Zig Zag Marble Run on Door
Cereal Box Marble Run
BIG door Marble Run
RED BALL MARBLE ADVENTURE
HUGE MOUNTAIN MARBLE RUN
THIRD...gather
Marble Run Supplies
cardboard rolls (toilet paper or paper towel tubes)
Painter’s tape or masking tape
Scissors
Marbles or small rolling objects
Bowl, cup or basket to catch the marble in at the end.
You can also use:
Paper plates
Construction paper
Plastic containers
Cardboard boxes
Milk jugs
FOURTH...build
Find some clear wall space. Set your marble run up on an empty wall, large window, sliding glass door, or the refrigerator. Tape the highest tube to a spot that you can easily reach, and keep on taping rolls or chutes until you have something that you love. Marbles move fast and like to fly right out of the tubes if they're not positioned to catch speedy marbles.
To make a marble run work, it's best to test out small sections as you build to help work out the angles and distances.
FIFTH...share
You MUST send me photographs, videos, or write to tell me about what you have done.
If you are in SeeSaw, you can click the GLOBE in SeeSaw and your teacher will post your work in the STEM blog so everyone can see them!
For grades 3 and 4, please email your work to me, and I'll post some on this page for others to see!
beth.evans@bcsemail.org