For School Groups
- School Program
- Costs 13.00 per student
- Takes about 2.00 hours
- Designed for 5th grade, 6th grade, 7th grade and 8th grade
- Theme: Design and Invention, Force and Motion
Description
The Whitney Relay is a set of interconnectable parts that lets students master the art and science of energy transfer in the tradition of the Rube Goldberg Machine or its contemporary Japanese masterpiece: the Pythagoras Switch. Each student receives 5 ramps, 8 marbles, 6 blocks, and assorted parts to construct a chain reaction that could include your whole class. Thoughtful lessons in mechanics, invention and teamwork.
Meets Connecticut Science Standards
- 6.4: Water moving across and through earth materials carries with it the products of human activities.
- 7.1: Energy provides the ability to do work and can exist in many forms.
- 8.1: An object’s inertia causes it to continue moving the way it is moving unless it is acted upon by a force to change its motion.
Meets Common Core Standards
- MS-PS2: Motion and Stability: Forces and Interactions
Meets Next Generation Science Standards
- MS-PS2: Motion and Stability: Forces and Interactions:
- MS-PS3-2: Develop a model to describe that when the arrangement of objects interacting at a distance changes, different amounts of potential energy are stored in the system.
- 3-5-ETS1-1: Define a simple design problem reflecting a need or a want that includes specified criteria for success and constraints on materials, time, or cost.
For Families
- Essential Experiment: Releasing Potential
