Thursday, February 5, 2009

Roller Coaster Project

This week in science, we grouped ourselves with four other partners, and our groups started building either a skate park or roller coaster(all the groups in yellow science chose a roller coaster.) We used supplies collected for almost the past 3 months consisting of toilet paper rolls, paper towel rolls, cardboard rolls, and boxes. My teacher supplied most of the boxes and all the tape for keeping the project together! In order to obtain these items and objects, you would have to use "Omega Money". A student would be awarded with Omega money when a student does something good, helpful, or honorable. Anyway, we have to include hills, and loops in the track/project to show how momentum and Newton's three laws is applied; and instead of an actual skateboard or train, we would use a marbel. The project hasn't ended yet so I don't know if my group's project is successful, but so far we've had ups and downs of the roller coaster.

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