Marble Run

Learning Goals: Child-Directed Play, Spatial Reasoning, Problem-Solving, Hand/ Eye Coordination, Observation and Testing

Provide students with marble run pieces to create structures.

Encourage them to explore building a marble run to test out how the marbles move through it.

Provide marbles when the child is ready to test their structure.

Play can be extended into a variety of inquiry trajectories from building successful marble runs to measuring speed of marbles.
Marble Run Pieces (any type of tubing that can connect and fit a marble through it)

Marbles

To extend their structures, students can use classroom materials that create more challenging marble runs (chairs, desks, blocks)
The educator provided the materials for this center, and students choose to explore and intiate play.

This activity allows students to direct their own play by exploring building and testing their structure.

Implementation