Ages 12-14

Creating Coasters & Zip Lines Multipack

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Let’s get moving! This all-inclusive, hands-on multipack for middle-level learners has two kits: experience the thrills of both roller coasters and zip lines. In Creating Roller Coasters, with help from kinetic and potential energy, construct a marble roller coaster with unlimited design possibilities! In Creating Zip Line Rockets, create your own balloon-powered zip line rocket and analyze its performance. 

• Creating Roller Coasters Kit
• Creating Zip Line Rockets Kit
• English + Spanish activity guide

• Ages 12-14
• Not included: ruler or tape measure, stopwatch, scissors, toy figure

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THE THRILL OF STEAM

✔︎ Speed, twists, turns, and loops!!
✔︎ Simple energy thrills
✔︎ Follow the design and then make it your own
✔︎ Minimal materials

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Your kiddos will walk through six exciting hands-on and step-by-step activities. Using these activity guides they will:

  • Sketch and construct a roller coaster using paper and cardboard
  • Design the track to have straight, curved, and loop sections
  • Learn about potential and kinetic energy
  • Build support columns and braces for structure and height
  • Create funnels and loop-de-loops for more thrill
  • Build a balloon-powered zip line 
  • Learn about Newton’s third law of motion
  • Investigate how slope affects speed
  • Use the engineering design process to create a working model of a zip line
  • Write safety rules for their zip line invention
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