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Science Buddies: Bomb's Away! A Ping Pong Catapult ActivityScience Buddies: Bomb's Away! A Ping Pong Catapult Activity
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Science Buddies
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3rd - 8th
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Lexile Measures
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Activity

Science Buddies: Bomb's Away! A Ping Pong Catapult

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With this project you'll send ping pong balls flying through the air with a rubber-band powered catapult. This catapult makes it easy to reproduce the launch angle, and to measure the amount of force applied to the projectile. Armed with this information, find ways to keep the ping pong balls flying accurately on target.

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Concepts

engineering, simple machines, mechanical engineering

Additional Tags

science fair project, science buddies, catapult, science project, trebuchets

Classroom Considerations

  • Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

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