How to Trap the Road Runner
Grades: 6th – 8th
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HOW TO TRAP THE ROADRUNNER Grades: 6th – 8th
- Workshop Leads: Peter Le, Engineer (The Gas Company—8 Year SSC Volunteer)
- Workshop Description: Students explore ‘how things work’ through discussion and hands-on activities using common household items. Students perform experiments demonstrating various aspects of the Law of Conservation of Energy, including transfer of kinetic energy, conservation of kinetic energy and momentum in collisions, and work and potential energy. Students will uses the concepts to trap the Road Runner.
- Subjects covered: Mechanics and Physics.