The last few weeks in Te Ngahere we have been learning how to construct a marble ramp. We had to create a marble ramp using whatever materials we could find. We got to choose groups of 2-3. The objective was for the marble to stop exactly 110cm or 1.1m from the end of your ramp. The reason we are doing this is because we have a Science fair coming up soon so we are using this challenge to prepare for that.
On competition day we are not allowed to touch our ramps because we will not be operating it, someone else will be. We also had to create specific instructions on how to operate our ramp.
A variable I made to my ramp was the angle it was on. To elaborate I had my ramp on a steep angle at first but that caused the marble to roll faster and past 1.1metres so we put it on a flatter angle which made it go slower.
Do you think you could create a successful marble ramp?
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