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Connecting Cube Train Races
Have children build connecting-cube trains to send down ramps, and use nonstandard measuring tools to mark how far the trains travel.
Explore Together (indoors): Build Ramps
Continue to explore ramp materials, build ramps, and move objects down the ramps. Children discuss and compare how objects move.
Explore Together (indoors): Build Steeper Ramps
Have children build and freely explore sending objects down ramps of different steepness.
Explore Together (indoors): Build Trackways
Have children work in pairs to build a trackway and observe how a marble moves down the track.
Explore Together (indoors): Building Tube Tracks
Have children build tube tracks and explore changing the tracks to make their ball move in different directions.
Explore Together (indoors): Indoor Ramp Rolling
Allow children to freely explore ramps materials and building ramps. Encourage them to record their observations.
Explore Together (indoors): Move Along
Discuss how things with and without wheels move down ramps. Have children work in groups to construct ramps.
Explore Together (indoors): Rolling Around
Challenge children to build a tube trackway and send a marble down the entire length of the trackway. Encourage children to draw or write to record their observations.
Explore Together (indoors): Rolling on Different Surfaces
Explore how different floor surfaces affect how far a ball travels after leaving a ramp. Divide the group onto different surfaces to see on which the ball will go farthest.
Explore Together (indoors): Steeper and Steeper
Have children explore how the steepness of a ramp will affect how far a ball travels. Use two ramps with one being steeper than the other.
Explore Together (indoors): Vary the Obstacles
Children continue to explore ramps and objects that can be obstacles. Have children experiment with using different objects to use as obstacles.
Explore Together (indoors): Vary the Steepness
Have children figure out what they need to do to the steepness of a ramp to make a ball knock over an obstacle.
Roll, Slide, or Both
Set up a few ramps of different heights on the end of the sand table. Have children try sending different objects down the ramps.
Sand Chutes
Supply tube chute ramps made of different materials. Have children explore and discuss how sand moves down the different ramps.
Sand Hills and Ramps
Children make an obstacle course at the Sensory Table as they freely explore the materials to make ramps, hills, and slides.
Small Group: Body Ramps
Have children make body ramps with their legs, arms, and different body parts. Then have them objects down their ramps.
Small Group: Ramp Races
Have children work with partners to build a ramp and “race” objects down the ramp and describe how the objects move differently down the ramp.
Small Group: Ramp Track Paintings
Have children create ramp paintings using balls dipped in paint and ramps.
Waterways
Help children construct a set of ramps to explore how water travels along slanted inclines. Encourage them to place different obstacles along the waterways.