This event is open to grades 3 & 4 featuring CRASH for grade 3 & Rollercoaster Derby for grade 4.
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Phabulous Physics and CRASH event registration details.
Date: Tuesday, March 19, 2024 (SD 21st)
Time: 9:30am-12:30pm
Location: Allamuchy School
Coordinator: Nancy Baglio & Deirdre Mulligan
One team per event by school , Rollercoaster is 2-6 students, Crash up to 4 students.
Date: Tuesday, March 19, 2024 (SD 21st)
Time: 9:30am-12:30pm
Location: Allamuchy School
Coordinator: Nancy Baglio & Deirdre Mulligan
One team per event by school , Rollercoaster is 2-6 students, Crash up to 4 students.
Event Details:
-Insurance Certificates are needed.
- Grades 3-4
-Separate events for 3 and 4 (one for each grade)
-TEACHERS will be helping facilitate events; if you have teams in both areas, you can switch off between – expect to be busy!
- PARENTS can observe at Rollercoaster building but NOT at Crash (due to small room)
- all judging happens in main room where observers are allowed
- NO preschoolers allowed per BOE policy
- NO communication with their teams during building phase
Rollercoasters:
- Grades 3-4
-Separate events for 3 and 4 (one for each grade)
-TEACHERS will be helping facilitate events; if you have teams in both areas, you can switch off between – expect to be busy!
- PARENTS can observe at Rollercoaster building but NOT at Crash (due to small room)
- all judging happens in main room where observers are allowed
- NO preschoolers allowed per BOE policy
- NO communication with their teams during building phase
Rollercoasters:
- Prep is needed. Pipe insulation tubes, paper towel tubes, tape and 1 marble!
- 4th Grade event
- Teams are up to 6 students, NO MORE THAN SIX. Works better with fewer students.
- No prep! Can tell students the event is called Crash and that it’s about consumer safety problem solving. Please do not tell students any details about the event.
- Toy pickup trucks with pull back motors, crash test dummy (plastic Easter egg). Crash the pickup truck into the wall. The dummy needs to be okay and still in its seat.
- Seats are built from materials purchased with tokens; limited budget, varied materials – creativity and planning and problem solving
- 3rd Grade Event
- One team of up to 4 students, NO MORE THAN Four.
Rollercoasters:
Below are files that may help you to teach the Phab Physics unit, gr. 4 - Rollercoaster Derby. Instruction focuses mainly on Newton's Laws of Motion.
ROLLERCOASTERS
Below are files that may help you to teach the Phab Physics unit, gr. 4 - Rollercoaster Derby. Instruction focuses mainly on Newton's Laws of Motion.
ROLLERCOASTERS
- Teams of 6 or less (no more than 6)
- The foam insulation tubes for the rollercoasters are [one and three eighths inch] diameter, with a[ three quarter inch diameter] opening. Each tube should be split along the seam and then cut lengthwise, to produce two tracks with hemispherical cross-section. A single length of track, in my materials, is three feet, so the competition may require 4, 5, or 6 lengths, for a total of 12 to 18 feet total. The exact parameters are pulled out at random that morning, so students should be familiar with various set-ups.
- Masking tape use is not limited BUT cannot be on the actual rolling surface of the track (wrapping the back and sides and even the top flat edge is okay, but not within the curved interior).
- Starting height is not pre-determined; students may set the start at whatever height works best for their track, as long as the marble is released close (within a few inches) to the start of the track.
- Turns may be “banked,” (see photo of banked highway http://www.mickeyxtreme.com/images1/news2011/07062011DisneysCARadiatorSprings2.jpg )to keep the marble from exiting the track.
- One more important point: the systems will tend to stretch back to their original shape (i.e. straight tubes) so students should tape securely – even excessively – to counteract this distortion of their system.
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