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Catapult: Flight of the Marshmallows Lesson PlanCatapult: Flight of the Marshmallows Lesson Plan
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6th - 12th
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Catapult: Flight of the Marshmallows

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Watch your marshmallows fly. The engaging STEM activity has groups create a catapult to launch marshmallows. After testing their prototypes, they consider improvements and redesign their catapults.

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Concepts

flight, catapults, projectile motion, kinetic energy, potential energy, engineering design

Additional Tags

science

Instructional Ideas

  • Take the class outside for the testing portion of the activity

Classroom Considerations

  • A variety of materials are necessary
  • Learners should have knowledge of square roots

Pros

  • Directions include pictures of the setup
  • Teacher guide provides answers to questions

Cons

  • None

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