This week in Te Ngahere we have been doing something called The Marble Challenge and while we were doing the marble challenge we have been learning how to use The Scientific Method In The Marble Challenge you had to build a ramp that could send a marble accurately at 110cm. After that you can test the ramp, you can chose to modify the ramp. After you made the ramp you had to build instructions for the ramp so if it was two pieces you would have to put how to build the ramp in instructions. When you did those things you let someone else test your instructions. After you have done everything you wait for competition day. Even though it was a simple and easy process my team Amber and Alana did not succeed BUT our team did not fail either because we got 11 points and some teams got 0 so we stay grateful.
After the challenge we reflected on the marble run we made and our team. We thought our ramp did good because of how fast the marble went but maybe it went too fast. We thought we needed to make our instructions better because when we put our ramp down for competition day we had no instructions for building and our ramp was two pieces so the testers had to make the ramps themselves. We thought our ramp wasn't really successful because the testers had to build it because we forgot about the instructions and our marble kept on rolling past the places were you get a point. If we had the chance to change or modify the ramp we would make the ramp stepper and we could of made taped it all together.
Have you ever made a ramp for a marble before?
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