Week 3: Ramps and Textures

The class observes how the children in this video build ramps from everyday objects and invent a bowling game.

Children design a bowling game that will fit in a classroom space. They observe how a ball moves down different lane designs. Can you make the ball go faster? Slow down? Stop?

Children design a bowling game that will fit in a classroom space. They observe how a ball moves down different lane designs. Can you make the ball go faster? Slow down? Stop?

Children observe what happens when a marble rolls down a ramp and hits an obstacle. They use the Slow It Down Videos tool to document their experiments.

Children draw pictures of fantasy playground or water park slides and identify which parts of the slide are the steepest and fastest.

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 predict what will happen when a rolling marble hits an obstacle and explain their reasoning. Then they watch several videos from the Slow It Down Videos tool and observe what happens.

Children design a bowling game that will fit in a classroom space. They observe how a ball moves down different lane designs. Can you make the ball go faster? Slow down? Stop?

Children predict what will happen when a rolling marble hits an obstacle and explain their reasoning. Then they watch several videos from the Slow It Down Videos tool and observe what happens.

Children design a bowling game that will fit in a classroom space. They observe how a ball moves down different lane designs. Can you make the ball go faster? Slow down? Stop?