Lockdown Marble Runs and Marble Mazes

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Our new challenge for Science and Technology is to work out what Force is used to make marbles move freely around Marble Mazes and Marble Runs. We need to find out about them first, then design and consider what materials we will use to make them. Finally we need to create them, and share what they look like and comment on how our design worked out.

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  1. Phil @ Ako HikoSeptember 15, 2021 at 1:25 PM

    Ka pai Ruma 17. What a cool idea, so creative! Have you check out Room 13's blogs? They've been doing some Rube Goldberg machines which your mahi reminded me of. Maybe you could leave them some feedback? Here is Antonio's blog.

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