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Regina Vermina Recreating Vermin Rolling Vehicles Theme Park
http://wootenml.wix.com/regina-vermina
This is the worm vehicle we are making for Regina Vermina's Theme Park.
Our goal is to create a vehicle that rolls straight, travels quickly, and keeps the four worms safe.
Energy transfer (solar powered)
radiation, chemical, gravitational potential, kinetic, heat (friction) and sound
Materials:
1 Trix cereal box
2 Wooden Dowels for axels (each 24 cm long)
4 CDs
4 Wooden, Squared Hubcaps
4 Paper, Triangular Bearings
8 Plastic Spacers (each 1cm long)
4 Black Film Containers
Scissors
Hot Glue
4 Gummy Worms
Ramp (76 cm long)
Dimensions:
Length = 34 cm
Width = 23 cm
Height = 16.5 cm
Weight = 212.6 grams
Construction Procedure:
1. Glue cereal box shut.
2. Hot glue wooden hubcaps onto the CDs being sure to line up the holes.
3. Hot glue bearings on the bottom side of the Trix box, leaving the holes exposed above the box. Using the holes as reference marks to measure, each bearing should be 25 cm apart from each other. This should mean that one bearing will be approximately 1 inch from the front of the box and the other bearing will be approximately 1 inch from the back of the box.
4. Insert precut wooden dowels through the holes in the bearings.
5. Insert CDs onto both ends of the wooden dowels.
6. Use hot glue to secure the CDs to the wooden dowels.
7. Place 2 plastic spacers on the wooden dowels between each of the CDs and the bearings.
8. Hole punch one hole into the center of each of the 4 film containers.
9. Hot glue these film containers to the top of the cereal box.
10. Place gummy worms in their individual containers.
11. Take off!
Test Procedure:
1. We measured the length of ramp to be 76 cm.
2. We then placed the meter stick on the ground perpendicular to the wall and measured our three heights (60 cm, 40 cm, and 20 cm, 0 cm). For our test runs, we set the ramp up to these three heights. This served as our independent variable.
3. For each test run, we set the car at the top of the ramp so that the back wheels were touching the wall.
4. Without pushing it, we released the car from the ramp.
5. When measuring the distance travelled, we measured from the back wheel (top of ramp) to the back wheel of wherever it stopped rolling. For each run we added 76 cm to compensate for the ramp.
6. The distance travelled was our dependent variable.
7. We did three test runs for each of our four heights, averaging the distance rolled for each height.
8. We recorded our data in a table and then converted it into a line graph to compare the results.
Regina Vermina Recreating Vermin Rolling Vehicles Theme Park
http://wootenml.wix.com/regina-vermina
This is the worm vehicle we are making for Regina Vermina's Theme Park.
Our goal is to create a vehicle that rolls straight, travels quickly, and keeps the four worms safe.
Energy transfer (solar powered)
radiation, chemical, gravitational potential, kinetic, heat (friction) and sound
Materials:
1 Trix cereal box
2 Wooden Dowels for axels (each 24 cm long)
4 CDs
4 Wooden, Squared Hubcaps
4 Paper, Triangular Bearings
8 Plastic Spacers (each 1cm long)
4 Black Film Containers
Scissors
Hot Glue
4 Gummy Worms
Ramp (76 cm long)
Dimensions:
Length = 34 cm
Width = 23 cm
Height = 16.5 cm
Weight = 212.6 grams
Construction Procedure:
1. Glue cereal box shut.
2. Hot glue wooden hubcaps onto the CDs being sure to line up the holes.
3. Hot glue bearings on the bottom side of the Trix box, leaving the holes exposed above the box. Using the holes as reference marks to measure, each bearing should be 25 cm apart from each other. This should mean that one bearing will be approximately 1 inch from the front of the box and the other bearing will be approximately 1 inch from the back of the box.
4. Insert precut wooden dowels through the holes in the bearings.
5. Insert CDs onto both ends of the wooden dowels.
6. Use hot glue to secure the CDs to the wooden dowels.
7. Place 2 plastic spacers on the wooden dowels between each of the CDs and the bearings.
8. Hole punch one hole into the center of each of the 4 film containers.
9. Hot glue these film containers to the top of the cereal box.
10. Place gummy worms in their individual containers.
11. Take off!
Test Procedure:
1. We measured the length of ramp to be 76 cm.
2. We then placed the meter stick on the ground perpendicular to the wall and measured our three heights (60 cm, 40 cm, and 20 cm, 0 cm). For our test runs, we set the ramp up to these three heights. This served as our independent variable.
3. For each test run, we set the car at the top of the ramp so that the back wheels were touching the wall.
4. Without pushing it, we released the car from the ramp.
5. When measuring the distance travelled, we measured from the back wheel (top of ramp) to the back wheel of wherever it stopped rolling. For each run we added 76 cm to compensate for the ramp.
6. The distance travelled was our dependent variable.
7. We did three test runs for each of our four heights, averaging the distance rolled for each height.
8. We recorded our data in a table and then converted it into a line graph to compare the results.