Marble Run Stem Project

Create a homemade marble run buggy and buddy explore physics by creating a homemade marble run at home and exploring what happens to the marble as you make changes to the track.

Marble run stem project.

Building a cardboard chair a spaghetti bridge a cardboard boat a marble run a balloon car and a periscope. You ll be creating a homemade marble run and exploring what happens to the marble as you make changes to the track. You ll need 4 5 cans per marble run so if you re doing this with a stem club or class you may want to make your own play dough to save money. Lego marble run use lego bricks to create a marble run.

We recently learned about stem challenges from the james dyson foundation. Create a homemade marble run our latest stem activity for kids is all about physics. In general i prefer to make homemade play dough. Keep adding tube to your supply and you could make a floor to ceiling marble run.

The slideshow presentation ppt and keynote allows the teacher to facilitate the pacing throughout the project. This week we took on 6 of these challenges. For this project however i think that store bought works slightly better because it s a little more firm. This is an awesome engineering challenge and would be perfect for a lego club.

This keeps everyone occupied even the adults on an indoor day. Make sure that your magnets are strong enough to handle the weight of the components. Changeable magnetic marble run use pvc pipe clear tubing craft sticks and magnets to create components for a changeable magnetic marble run. Middle school science stem challenge marble madness included in every stem challenge the stem challenges are comprehensive resources that provide the teacher the confidence to run a smooth and efficient lesson.

Just like a roller coaster. It s similar to how a roller coaster works. In this activity you will use recyclable materials to make your own wall marble run. That would be pretty cool.

For each challenge a challenge card with the rules and instructions is supplied.