Roller Coaster Engineering Challenge

Visiting Josh Pizzica's 8th grade science class at Monroe Middle School is always an inspirational delight!  Last week, his students were constructing paper roller coasters as an introduction to physics of energy and motion.  Josh shared, "it's important to give students a shared experience to build background knowledge on new concepts."



Josh shared that he purchased most of the materials at http://paperrollercoasters.com/  But he also created his own questions and sentence frames to have his students discuss before and during building.



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