Various designs and plans for items you can build for your classroom.
Potential and Kinetic Energy
This concept design for potential and kinetic energy was a first take at a larger scale participatory lesson. The students strapped a Android based phone to a skate wheel car and took measurements as the car oscillated up a down each side.
The first attempt at this ramp was not terribly successful. I will need to add rails on the side to keep cars from veering off the ramp. Also, the ramp was not quite sturdy enough for a Skateboard.
The humble pegboard can be used in a variety of ways. An all pegboard Rube Goldberg. Demonstrating the Cartesian graphing system. The limit to the usefulness of this board of holes is hard to measure.
Pegboard Rube Goldberg
Simple construction with 2×4’s and 4 2’x4′ Pieces of pegboard.
The lesson can be as simple as dominoes on inclined planes.
Watch this for an animation of virtual dominoes
Or use whatever you can find around the garage.
