Unit 6F, Forces and Motion Unit Project: Marble Park Use every-day materials to create miniature amusement park rides in which the riders are marbles — not people! Along with your other classmates combine these rides into a complete miniature theme park that has many different kinds of rides.   Project Link 1 (Chapter 1, page F19) You are going to build a miniature amusement park for marbles, instead of people. First, draw a Marble Park map. Leave room for all the rides, games, and restaurants that a big theme park has. Transfer your drawing to sheets of heavy posterboard. Design and build some way for your marbles to move around the park. Include a train that circles the park. Design a chair lift using string, paper cups, and straws. Each chair should be able to carry one marble around the park. Design walkways that lead from one ride to another. Internet Links Amusement Park Design and Layout Thinkquest: Park Opening http://library.thinkquest.org/2745/data/openpark.htm A Visit to Yesterland — The Discontinued Disneyland http://www.yesterland.com/yester.html Student Resources Sample Theme Park Map Project Link 2 (Chapter 2, page F41) Design two different roller coasters for your amusement park. Build a three-dimensional model that will fit on your posterboard. Make sure each roller coaster can carry at least one marble. Experiment to determine how fast the coaster can go. Then, beside each coaster, give its name and information about how high and how fast it goes. Internet Links Roller Coasters Funderstanding Roller Coaster http://www.Funderstanding.com/k12/coaster/ The Annenberg/CPB Exhibits Amusement Park Physics: Roller Coaster http://www.learner.org/exhibits/parkphysics/coaster.html ThinkQuest: The Law of Conservation of Energy — Free Fall http://library.thinkquest.org/2745/data/lawce2.htm Student Resources Ride Information Card Project Link 3 (Chapter 3, page F76) Choose two different motion rides to design. The rides should start, stop, and carry at least one marble. One of the rides should turn in circles. The other should use a swing. Give each ride a name. Then experiment with your rides to determine how fast each goes and the safety features each needs. Display this information beside each ride. Internet Links Motion RIdes Annenberg/CPB Exhibits Amusement Park Physics: Pendulum http://www.learner.org/exhibits/parkphysics/pendulum.html Annenberg/CPB Exhibits Amusement Park Physics: Carousel http://www.learner.org/exhibits/parkphysics/carousel.html ThinkQuest: Centripetal Force — The Typhoon http://library.thinkquest.org/2745/data/centrip2.htm Arizona Collaborative for Excellence in the Preparation of Teachers What Is Motion? http://acept.la.asu.edu/courses/phs110/ds2/chapter2.html The Big Ferris Wheel Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh — North Side: George Ferris http://www.clpgh.org/exhibit/neighborhoods/northside/nor_n105b.html Student Resources Ride Safety and Precaution Card Project Link 4 (Chapter 4, page F87) Bumper cars are a very popular amusement park ride. Imagine one bumper car colliding with a second bumper car that is touching a third bumper car. Describe what happens to the cars. Using three marbles of the same size, create a model of this crash. Describe what happens to each “car” during the collision. Test as many different kinds of collisions as you can think of. Describe the result of each collision on a card next to a drawing of it. Internet Links Bumper-Car Rides Video Worldbook.com: Bumper Cars http://videoworldbook.com/bumpercars.html Annenberg/CPB Exhibits Amusement Park Physics: Bumper Cars http://www.learner.org/exhibits/parkphysics/bumpcars.html Annenberg/CPB Exhibits Amusement Park Physics: Colliding Cars http://www.learner.org/exhibits/parkphysics/bumpercars/ Student Resources Collision Report Project Link 5 (Chapter 5, page F119) Use cups, a slide and a pan of water to create a Marble Park water ride. The challenge here is to make a big splash without turning the cup over. Internet Links Water Rides Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom http://www.dorneypark.com/public/inside_park/rides/water_rides/index.cfm Student Resources Ride Specifications