Watch your classroom turn into an arcade. Pupils work in groups to build pinball machines from boxes and other found objects. Gamers must incorporate a variety of obstacles and launchers into the machine to see their designs in motion.

Concepts

engineering design, product design, technology resources

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Instructional Ideas

• Have learners play each other's games
  

Classroom Considerations

• Requires a lot of materials, including a shallow box for each group
• Resource suggests providing materials in addition to those on the materials list to allow for increased creativity
  

Pros

• Instructions include pictures of sample set ups
  
• Teenagers will likely have fun with the activity
  

Cons

• None