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Have students create a Cotton Ball Catapult to help understand the how kinetic, potential and mechanical energy play a role in the interactions between objects at a distance and when position changes (NGSS MS-PS3-2) This week long project is presented in a 5E format to build engagement in your classroom and help students review energy before diving into the project. You can also stretch this out to two weeks, if need be. This 3-Dimensional Project also incorporates NGSS Science and Engineering P

During this 3-4 day project, students will be designing and building a Marble Track to better understand the arrangement of object interacting at a distance and how kinetic and potential energy changes when distance (from the ground or from the end of the track, etc.) changes. Standards Covered... MS-PS3-2 Develop a model to describe that when the arrangement of objects interacting at a distance changes, that different amounts of potential energy in the system. PS3.A Definitions of Energy (Pot