“The Accord”- Roller

Coaster
By: Aaron Gonzalez, Javier Arreola,
and Moises Roman
Goal

Our goal was construct a roller coaster for marbles. The only requirements were
to have two or more loops and have them at least 12 in. diameters.
Materials We used:

Used ● Orange pool noodles(4 ft. each)

● Skewer Sticks
● Utility knife
● Tape
● Cardboard
● Hot glue gun
● Ruler
● Construction paper
● Toy cars
 Daily Journal Entry
What We Learned What Connections What We Don’t
Date Today Or What We Have Made To
Understand
Progress We Made What We Learned

01/03/18 We were It uses the How we were

investigating the conservation of suppose to start out
science of how potential energy to with first.
coasters work and kinetic energy(the
how to construct our Speed and the
model Height it would use)

01/04/18 We went to go buy We needed to relate We weren’t sure

all of the supplies like how architects what exactly we
we needed to start think in order to needed to buy to
our construction create our version of start our coaster.
such as the base, a coaster
the frame, and the
track.
(Continued)
01/05/18 We started on our The connection we We needed to fix the 2
construction of the roller were able to relate with loop and felt like it was
coaster had a rusty start many architects was impossible to make
with our ideas but then how to make a change them 12in in diameter.
came to a conclusion, of plans and how the
and managed to finish it coaster was not coming
in one day. out how we wanted to
make it look like. Also
creating a stable pillar
to keep it from crashing
down.
Key Vocabulary
● Potential energy - is the energy
possessed by an object because of its
position relative to other objects, stresses
within itself, its electric charge, or other
factors
● Kinetic energy - that a body possesses by
virtue of being in motion.
● Conservation of energy - the total energy
of an isolated system in a given frame of
reference remains constant — it is said to
be conserved over time.
● Gravity - the force of attraction between all
masses in the universe; especially the
attraction of the earth's mass for bodies near
its surface.
● Velocity - of an object is the rate of change of
its position with respect to a frame of
reference, and is a function of time.
● Friction - the force resisting the relative
motion of solid surfaces, fluid layers, and
material elements sliding against each other
● Slope - of a line is a number that describes
both the direction and the steepness of the
line.
Steps of the Making

1) First, we build up ideas on how we wanted to make our

coaster
2) Next, we went to by our supplies for the construction
3) We started constructing the frames for the coaster
4) Then we taped the pool noodles together
5) Then started making the loops by twisting the pool
noodles
(Continued)

6) Once we made the first loop we moved on to the second

loop

7) Once we made the 2nd loop we decided to start our 10

trails and finished with decorating
Data Trails Time

1 1.80s

2 1.62s

3 1.62s

4 1.36s

5 1.59s

6 1.58s

7 1.50s

8 1.55s

9 1.62s

10 1.82s
Scientific facts

● Goes at a speed of 7.3 ft/sec

● Its average time for the marble to travel
through the coaster is 1.6s
Facts of “The Accord”

● It is 11.8 ft(141.6 in) long

● 3.3 ft(39 ⅝ in) tall
● Surprisingly very stable despite its appearance
● Took around 15 hrs to complete
● Every trial that was done didn’t fail
● The Accord sign came from Javier’s mom’s car
Problems we went through

● We didn't know where to start

● We had problems to make the right size of our loops(12 in.)
● The way we were suppose to make the 2nd loop
● What time we were going to work on the project
Video of “The Accord”
SLOs

● Investigate the world:We investigated the world by looking up to the world of

physics and how kinetic energy and conservation of energy work.
● Recognize Perspectives:We recognized perspectives by finding the way an
architect thinks of making structures and plans out things.
● Communicate Ideas:We communicated ideas by talking to one another in
our groups and sharing our different ideas and the outcome of “The Accord”
● Take Action:We took action by constructing our roller coaster and testing
ways in order for it to work, also by creating the PowerPoint, and the data we
got in our coaster.