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"Head"ing the snowman

Published on Jan 08, 2017

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"Head"ing the ball player

in the right direction
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Challenge:
Can you make a "ball player's head" (small plastic ball) go through 3 steps to get to his body (egg carton cups)? Your system must include 3 simple machines.

What are simple machines?

Materials can include:

  • toilet and paper towel tubes
  • pencils
  • wooden dowels
  • popsicle sticks
  • binder clips
  • blocks
  • pipe cleaners
  • screw top lids from water bottles
  • string, yarn, rubberbands
  • doorstops
  • Legos and Tinkertoys
  • Anything else that might be purposeful from your home or from your classroom

You MUST plan and design using the provided sheet

It's okay if your design and simple machine choices change as you go.

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