Marble And Ruler Motion Activity

Ideas to experiment with force and motion 1.

Marble and ruler motion activity. I choose this activity because i want students to have a. First we lined up three marbles in the middle and one marble at the edge. Using marbles to demonstrate newton s third law of motion. The bottom marble has no momentum whatsoever which means all the momentum comes from the rolling top marble.

The student has recorded that when the small marble collided with the big marble the big marble traveled 48 cm. First i create a sail by folding the flash card and taping it into a sail shape. I display the directions for this marble lab on the board for all to see and then let students begin exploring. Kinetic energy is the energy of an object in motion.

When the rubber band is released and pours out all that energy it had stored up or when the marble begins to fly down the inclined plane that energy is kinetic energy. Have students draw pictures of things that move. The effect of the incline angle upon the distance which a paper sail is driven along the level table by a rolling marble. They thought that the marbles in the middle would roll away.

The ruler should be placed so that the lower numbers are at the base of the ramp. Teach force and motion with style by using experiments free printables and resources that will help bring science concepts alive. Place a half cup at the base of the ramp so that a marble rolling down the ramp will enter the cup and push it. If you re looking for fun ideas then this is the place to start.

You can see in this photo below a sample student science notebook. Distance motion work physics. I asked the boys what they thought would happen when i flicked the marble. More information marble physics.

For this experiment all you need is a ruler with a groove in the middle and some marbles. A marble dominoes a ruler and a flash card. This collection of force and motion ideas should help you cover the topics of texture gravity incline and some simple machines. Student advanced version only 8.

Language arts beginner level activities 1. Ask students to tell you all the objects they can name which move have motion wheels on the bus propellers cars people walking. Fix the ruler in place with tape so it will not move from one experiment to the next 2. In order for the moving marble s momentum to be conserved some of the momentum of the top marble should transfer to the unmoving bottom marble upon contact putting the immobile marble in motion.

Another example is a marble teetering at the top of an inclined plane.