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Thrills and Chills Without the Spills
Roller Coaster Physics for Middle School Students
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Take the Challenge:  Design and build a roller coaster that creates thrills and chills without the spills!
 PROJECT INSTRUCTIONS
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1. Read Project Requirements, if you haven’t done so already. 

2. Review Project Purpose

3. Submit Letter of Introduction from your school, as early as possible, before 1/15/00. 

4. Do the Project Activities: 

PROJECT ACTIVITY 
TIMELINE
a) Scavenger Hunt
  • Begin activity
  • Complete hunt and post information to listserv if desired

  • 12/20/99 
    1/28/00
    b) One Hill Roller Coaster (required)
  • Begin activity
  • Data due to listserv 
  • Data from all participants available for analysis
  • Analyze data and post justification to listserv

  • 1/31/00 
    2/16/00 
    2/23/00 
    3/3/00
    c) Competition Roller Coaster
  • Begin activity
  • Final date to conduct competition
  • Competition data and scale drawings due to listserv
  • Competition results posted
  • Ads due to listserv

  • 3/6/00 
    3/27/00 
    4/3/00 
    4/10/00 
    4/17/00