Marble Ramps With Rulers

If you want a shallow marble ramp you might need to make some more ramps.

Marble ramps with rulers.

Now take the biggest triangle and draw the marble ramps using a pen and ruler make the ramps 1 5cm or a bit bigger depending on the size of your marbles. Once you ve finished drawing the ramps take some scissors and cut them out. The marble went 25 then 34 then 47 cubes. The ruler should be placed so that the lower numbers are at the base of the ramp.

If i start. Some students will likely say that the higher the marble is on the ramp the farther the cup will move. One weekend we pooled our talents and materials and set up an enormous marble ramp alongside two walls of the classroom using piles of books rulers and. I implement their suggestion and the marble moves in a straight line and hits the sail.

You should have at least seven ramps. I implement their suggestion and the marble misses the sail completely and bounces off of the table. In this experiment the inclined plane makes work easier by allowing gravity without any help from you to move the marble down the ramp. Ramp set up higher and higher.

Suzanne if i could launch my marble off a ramp that started as high as a desk i could really get it to roll far. Place a half cup at the base of the ramp so that a marble rolling down the ramp will enter the cup and push it. Position one marble at the top of the ruler 30 cm and. I built this track myself my kids didn t help but it was based off inspiration from kids at a recent lego event we attended.

Students then suggest i roll the marble on top of the ruler since it has a groove. Lean a grooved ruler or paper towel tube against the textbooks or other props so that the top end is at the 5 cm height while the other end is touching the floor. An example of potential energy is a stretched out rubber band the farther you stretch it the more potential energy it has. A truly admirable marble ramp was distinguished by the length of time taken by the marble to emerge the longer the better and by the variety of interesting noises it made on the way.

Conserving energy have students explore potential and kinetic energy by releasing a marble on a simulated roller coaster. It s fun to build ramps jumps and all kinds of creative projects. Gavin it s kind of like when i ride a bike. You ll be amazed at the lego marble runs they can create.

Potential energy is the energy that is stored in an object. In this post i m going to show you how to build a really awesome lego marble run. The ramp should be positioned so that the marble rolled down the ramp will roll across the floor and collide with the wall. Release the marble and let students observe that the marble moves the cup along the tabletop.

Students suggest i roll the marble and try to hit the sail. If i set up a ramp that was 4 blocks high the marble would probably roll somewhere in the 50 s.