Roller Coaster Engineering
Design, build, test, and rebuild working roller coasters while exploring the physics of force, motion, and energy. The Roller Coaster Engineering STEM Kit uses a durable modular building system with sturdy frame pieces and flexible track, allowing kids to create dozens of exciting coaster designs.
Young engineers can experiment with different track slopes, lengths, directions, and car weights to see how each change affects speed and motion. Hands-on activities introduce important physics concepts, including gravity, potential and kinetic energy, acceleration, friction, free fall, projectile motion, velocity, and centripetal force.
The included full-color manual provides step-by-step illustrated instructions, scientific explanations, experiments, and engineering challenges. Build the tallest coaster possible, create a long straightaway, or attempt an exciting loop-de-loop.
Features
- Build dozens of working roller coaster models
- Explore force, motion, and energy through hands-on experiments
- Modular building system is easy to assemble and reuse
- Flexible track supports endless coaster configurations
- Experiment with track height, slope, length, and direction
- Adjust car weight to study changes in speed and motion
- Introduces gravity, velocity, acceleration, friction, and energy
- Explores free fall, projectile motion, and centripetal force
- Includes engineering challenges of different difficulty levels
- Durable plastic components for repeated building
- Full-color manual with illustrated instructions and scientific explanations
- Encourages STEM learning, problem-solving, and creative thinking