Marble Run
Learning Goals: Child-Directed Play, Spatial Reasoning, Problem-Solving, Hand/ Eye Coordination, Observation and Testing
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Provide students with marble run pieces to create structures.
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Encourage them to explore building a marble run to test out how the marbles move through it.
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Provide marbles when the child is ready to test their structure.
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Play can be extended into a variety of inquiry trajectories from building successful marble runs to measuring speed of marbles.
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- 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.
