Trains and Coasters (2011)

Dates: 4 Tuesdays (3:30-4:45 pm), January 2011

Participants: 14

Key Concepts:

* learn to work together to build a model roller coaster (using electromagnets and potential/kinetic energy) without the use of instructions.

* learn how an electromagnet works.

* learn what potential and kinetic energy is and how they are used in the building of roller coasters

* learn how a magnetic levitation train works.

* explore how magnets work to build their own magnetic train.