Radioactive Golf Balls
Use your creativity, teamwork skills and the engineering design process to develop a unique solution to transport “radioactive” golf balls safely over a distance of 8 feet.
In this activity, youth will use their creativity to develop a new device to transport “radioactive” golf balls safely over a distance of 8 feet.
Learning Objectives:
- Youth will be able to work as a team to solve a problem.
- Youth will be able to use the engineering design process to develop a solution to a problem
Materials:
- For each pair:
- 1 brown paper lunch bag
- 1 golf ball
- 4 pieces of 4” string
- 4 drinking straws
- 2 skewers
- 4 paper clips
- 4 rubber bands
- 5 post-It notes
- 3 push pins
- 1 pencil
- 1 foot piece of tape
- 1 piece of paper
- 1 pencil
- For the entire group:
- 1 meter stick
- 1 stopwatch
- 5 golf balls
- An additional paper lunch bag
NOTE: It may be easier to pack all the materials each pair will be using in a brown paper bag.