Week 4: Build Ramps and Pathways

Children design a sled track made of ramps and flat surfaces to move a “summer sled” through a town obstacle course.

Smooth metal is added to the textured material choices (bumpy grass and less bumpy dirt) for children to explore. They test using the three textures to build a pathway that will land the coconut on the star.

Children design a sled track made of ramps and flat surfaces to move a “summer sled” through a town obstacle course.

Children explore textured bumpy grass, less bumpy dirt and smooth metal materials to try to move a coconut along a pathway onto the star.

Add new materials to the Learning Center that enable children to build pathways for marbles, such as cardboard tubes, foam pipe insulation tubes, and/or wooden cove molding.

Children roll paint-covered marbles in a paper-lined box lid or tray.

Children compare the effect of different textured surfaces as they slide and roll objects down the ramps.

Children try to make a coconut land on a star while exploring how the amount of force, the steepness of a ramp, and the surface texture of the pathway affect how far a coconut will roll.

Children design a sled track made of ramps and flat surfaces to move a “summer sled” through a town obstacle course.

Smooth metal is added to the textured material choices (bumpy grass and less bumpy dirt) for children to explore. They test using the three textures to build a pathway that will land the coconut on the star.