The 4th grade students have been busily making magnetically levitated train cars in science. Balancing the magnets on a styrofoam block so that train car will levitate on a magnetic track is not easy. It was important to make their maglev train cars glide smoothly down the track. The challenge then was to make the car travel as far as possible from the end of the track.
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| The girls carefully taped magnets to the bottom of the styrofoam block. |
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| They checked to see that their maglev train car balanced on the track. |
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| What made the train car travel farther? The girls added pennies, sails, and/ or more magnets. Are you curious? Ask your 4th grade engineer what worked! |
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| The big race! |
