Inclined Planes - Marble Run Game (6th Grade)

Good morning!

A great engineering challenge for our students has been the following:

Turn a SHOE BOX into a MARBLE RUN, using INCLINED PLANES.

Choose between building:

- The longest circuit as possible.

- The slowest circuit as possible.

All we needed were:

• craft sticks
• a shoe box / a carboard box
• glue
• scissors
• marbles or small balls

And here you can see some of our games. Great job, kids!

Balloon powered car (6th Grade)

Hello girls and boys!

6th Grade pupils had the following challenge:

"Build a balloon powered LEGO car. It must have 4 wheels and 2 axles."

These are some of the cars they built:

And now, watch them move:

Racing the cars was really fun!

Planes and helicopters (6th Grade)

Hello!

Our 6th Grade pupils continue with their Engineering lessons.

Who thought that building an aeroplane or a helicopter was going to be difficult? Read the following post in order to build these machines in less that 10 minutes!

PLANES

You only need a piece of paper, a straw, scissors and adhesive tape. 

HELICOPTERS

Material needed: a piece of paper, scissors and a paper clip.

Instructions:

 They even organised flying competitions!

Catapults (6th Grade)

Hello everyone!

In 6th Grade, we learn about the Simple Machines. So, we found it a good opportunity to start having some Engineering lessons. To start with, we decided to build a type of LEVER (our 1st studied simple machine) and we chose a CATAPULT:

It was easy and entertaining. We followed the instructions in this video from Experciencia, an amazing STEM website (in Spanish):

Here are some pictures of our catapults:

Simple machines (6th Grade)

Good morning!

In 6th Grade we are studying the Simple Machines. Here you can watch a video of three of them:

LEVERS - PULLEYS - RAMPS (or inclined planes)