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The Great Paper Roller Coaster Challenge

You and a partner are to design and build a Paper Roller Coaster. A kinetic sculpture is a marble maze that relies specifically gravity to pull the marble through the Coaster as slowly as possible. Your maze will be timed with a stopwatch You must have six curves, Funnel, at least one loop and a bucket to catch the marble at the end.

Rubric Code: ZXC36B4

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Type: Project

Grade Levels: 6-8

Roller Coaster Using knowledge of simple machines, student will create a Rube Golberg Contraption.
	Poor 0 pts	Fair 2 pts	Good 4 pts	Excellent 5 pts
2 Curves 1 tight turn 1 wide turn	Poor 0-1 curves where used.	Fair	Good 1 of 2 turns was successfully navigated	Excellent 1 tight turn and 1 wide turn were successfully navigated
2 Loops Marble went through the loop	Poor Marble did not successfully make it through loop.	Fair 1 Loop was completed successfully	Good 1 of 2 loops was completed successfully.	Excellent 2 loops were completed successfully.
Funnel Students must add a working funnel.	Poor Students did not add a funnel.	Fair	Good	Excellent Students added at least one Funnel.
Height Did not exceed height of 30"	Poor Students project was 0-19/obviously wasted tremendous amounts of time.	Fair Students project was 20- 29 inches tall.	Good Students project was 26-29 inches tall.	Excellent Students project was 28 inches to 30 inches
Decorated Students must have put time and thought into decorating.	Poor Didn't even make an attempt..	Fair Last minute thought. The theme is not clear. There is some color involved	Good Some Effort was put forth in decorating. There appears to be a theme	Excellent Students did an excellent job at decorating their whole project. The theme is clear and students took their time to create something appealing
Horizontal & Diagonal Horizontal Beams every eighteen inches	Poor 1 of the 3 used	Fair 1 of the 3 used	Good 2 of the 3 used	Excellent Horizontal & Diagonal beams used on the base and every 18" in height
New template track Students made a completely new track piece	Poor No new track piece created	Fair	Good	Excellent New track piece created
5 templates /1 new All 5 templates and a new template were used	Poor 3 templates were used	Fair 4 templates were used	Good All 5 templates were used	Excellent All 5 templates and a new template were used
5 Marbles	Poor 2 Marbles successfully make it to the bottom of the coaster	Fair 3 Marbles successfully make it to the bottom of the coaster	Good 4 Marbles successfully make it to the bottom of the coaster	Excellent 5 Marbles successfully make it to the bottom of the coaster

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