Growing a STEM Classroom

We have been working on building roller coasters in our classroom as we study force and motion in science.  

We build the roller coasters using the foam pipe insulators cut in half lengthwise.

I grabbed these from my local hardware store.  I got 12 packs for my classroom, and it was more than enough for my 7 teams.  We also needed rolls of masking tape and marbles!

We focused on one element each day and the kids built roller coasters for each element.  

We needed to give each team an area of the room to use for the construction of their roller coasters each day!

Seeing the way each element impacted the speed of the marble really helped them understand different concepts.  I have a couple of packs in my tpt store that we used!  Click the pictures to check out each pack!

Both of these packs helped us with lab sheets and vocabulary words!

Check out the bulletin board display in our classroom!

Having the vocabulary words up helped with our class discussions as well as giving support as students completed their lab sheets each day!

What do you use to teach force and motion concepts?