K’Nex Roller Coaster

2nd Grade and Up

DESCRIPTION

K’Nex is a system of interlocking plastic rods, connectors, blocks, gears, wheels, and other components, which can be pieced together to form a wide variety of models, machines, and architectural structures.

TEACHING RESOURCES

SETUP

The building instructions have been designed with the age of the student in mind, incorporating a ‘large build’ rather than a small scale, step-by-step approach. These large build sections have been tested extensively with high school students and areas of potential complexity have been expanded to show the construction in greater detail.

Depending on the time available, construction of the models can be accomplished in-class with lab groups designating appropriate sub-assemblies for their members to complete. In addition to the K’NEX Education Roller Coaster Physics Set your students will need:

• Metric tape measures, metric rulers (mm division), and meter sticks.
• Stopwatches, one or two pelab group, sensitive to at least 0.1 sec.
• Assorted balls, with a minimum diameter of 4.5 cm. Suggestions include a tennis ball, high bounce rubber ball (hollow), super ball (large), wooden ball, pool ball, hard rubber ball (solid), handball, etc.
• Classroom scale (sensitive to 0.01 gm), spring scales (recording to 100 gm.)
• Masking tape, AA batteries (riders for the coaster car), graph paper, and large sheets of paper.

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INSTRUCTION

Education Resources

K’Nex Roller Coaster Physics

Roller Coaster Physics Teachers Guide

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INVENTORY

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