The Pythagoras Switch
Level: Grades 4 – 8

Pythagoras Switch (aka Pitagora Suicchi) is a Japanese children's show that offers remarkable Rube Goldburg machines to demonstrate invention at work. With five tracks, marbles, many parts and your imagination, construct a marble relay to learn machines and invention. 5 Learning Lab Challenges.

Cost: $10 per student

Connecticut Core Science Curriculum Framework 4.1 The position and motion of objects can be changed by pushing or pulling. 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.

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Video of the culminating project at Thomas Edison Middle School in Meriden, CT after their visit doing the PS at the EWM.