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On Your Mark, Get Set, Roll
Duration: 120 min (Two 60 minute sessions)
Grade Levels: 4-12
Students will explore how to create triggers by building a device that releases a ball when activated. Their design will need to include a trigger that can be activated from three or more feet away from the device.
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Grade Levels: 4-12
Duration: 120 minutes
Concepts/Skills: Energy transfer, stored energy, gravitational
potential energy, elastic potential energy, engineering, release mechanisms
Objectives:
- Consider how they can use potential energy to
build their triggers. - Design a ball-release device that is activated by a
trigger. - Iterate on their design by building a different
method for activating the device.