Marble Roller Coaster Build

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

Marble roller coaster build.

The roller coaster is a great demonstration of the law of conservation of energy. Gravitational potential energy and kinetic energy. The lesson plan difficulty. You can build your own mini marble roller coaster using simple materials like popsicle sticks aluminum foil and a styrofoam base.

Then have everyone gently take apart only their own roller coaster and clump all the used tape into a giant tape ball start of class lecture. The way you design the coaster is up to you so get creative and challenge yourself to make your ride as fun fast and safe as possible. Allow 2 minutes near end of class for students to try each others coasters. Marble roller coasters are fun and easy to build.

In an isolated system such as the roller coaster the total energy remains constant. This project has a few things that help this work. Roller coasters rely on two types of energy to operate. Gravity also make this work.

This is a fun project that kids will love and can also learn some science. Arrange plenty of space in your room cleanup. The foam tubing roller.