Cardboard Marble Run Challenge

Finally a good way to use all of those old cereal boxes.

Cardboard marble run challenge.

The marble must run for 60 seconds. It looked a like a house to me and i could easily imagine a rough version of an architectural model. Show the class an example of a marble run and go over the worksheet together. Cardboard box marble run.

The cardboard tubes were easy to stick to the wall and we had fun designing our cardboard tube marble run. Can you build a run that keeps the marble going for at least a minute. In this video i show diy marble run machine from cardboard follow these steps from this video you can make amazing game by yourself at home. Let s explore how the gravitational energy of a marble changes to kinetic energy as it travels down a cardboard track.

My son also decided to make a second diy marble that dropped into the first one. Building a marble run. Cardboard chair 02 marble run 18 burning pudding 12 design and build a helicopter 06 thread spool tank 21 make a. Energy is everywhere and it changes from one form to another.

Challenge cards 44 engineering and science challenges. Stem challenge 4 marble run. A chemical reaction 03 spaghetti bridges 19 homemade water bomb 13 water clock 07 cardboard boat 01 geodesic domes 17 a tough nut to crack 11 balloon car race 05 electric. We cut pieces of tape so that we had plenty waiting once we got going.

With the goal of making the marbles travel as far as possible get small groups to brainstorm design ideas on their. But i asked n what she imagined and she said let s make a marble run. Craft sticks and marbles keva planks also work really well for engineering marble runs. Craft stick marble runs by far craft sticks and cardboard boxes are my favorite materials for kids to create their own marble runs.

Can you build a run that keeps the marble going for at least a minute. Creating and debugging a marble run is really fun. Watch the video to see how dyson engineers have tackled the problem including an impressive run made from dyson parts. The challenge use a cardboard box and cardboard struts to create a marble run.

Here s what we did with our humble box to spark our creativity i cut a side off of the box just to make it look a little different. Changeable magnetic marble run use pvc pipe clear tubing. Watch the video to see how dyson engineers have tackled the problem including an impressive run made from dyson parts.