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Tape the angled hood onto the larger rectangle.
Cut a 6" x 9" rectangle out of a cardboard cereal box.
Cut another rectangle, 6" x 4" and fold as shown.
Hot glue a bamboo skewer to the inside center of a plastic bottle cap.
Insert skewer through straw to create an axle. Hot glue bottle cap to other end of skewer.
Tape straw axles to bottom of car body. Make sure the wheels spin freely.
Roll your gravity racer down a ramp. Measure how far it rolls. What happens if you add weight to your racer, such as taping pennies to it? What else can you do to make it roll farther?
Decorate your Gravity Racer.
See how many new words can you make using the letters in the words:
CHALLENGE CREATIVE GRAVITY SKEWERS
Find the words by looking up, down, backwards, forwards, sideways, and diagonally.
N S K E W
G Y D D R A T E E
E R U R L N T K V
A G A W
M E N V M
D K N E
E I T R L T S C E
S S
I G L U E P A T C
G R E V I R D H R
DRIVER INVENT DESIGN DREAM SMART RACE STEM WORK TAPE GLUE
O U N L Y C R
E R R R I
I I
E R S C
A A O T
M W A
1-5 words: Language Lightweight 6-12 words: Rising Reader 13 or more words: Gravitational Greatness
Standards Link: Letter sequencing. Recognize identical words. Skim and scan reading. Recall spelling patterns.
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