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Rock'n' Roll Marbles

Come meet Tourbillon, a little dog who loves his marble collection! Can you make him a really long marble run? He’ll be delighted.

Length: 50 minutes

Capacity: 90 (3 classes)

Workshop details

Tourbillon likes to collect marbles and adores games where his marbles tumble, turn, roll, and spin! The longer the marbles roll, the happier he is! He invites children to build marble runs with a collection fun object. The challenge is to make the marbles travel for the longest time possible!

Activities

The children will:

  1. Participate in friction experiments.
  2. Examine objects and discover their possible associations.
  3. Create a course with these objects to roll a marble for as long as possible.

Links with the progression of learning

The children discover the science notions of friction and inclination.