If you built your cardboard catapult last week, join me on this week’s video and learn how to use a simple PLAN–DO–CHECK–ACT design cycle to improve your game!
My challenge to you this week:
Given a range (distance) to your target, can you tune your catapult & projectile to hit your target?
(Hint: you may want to do a few tests and collect some data. My website has a sample data sheet and blank chart you can use to plot your data up. It might help you figure it out.)
Here’s a few links you may find useful:
https://putneydesigns.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Catapult-Data-Sheet-with-Title.pdf
https://putneydesigns.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Graph-Paper-for-Catapult-with-Title.pdf
Or check out the catapults page on my website (under the STEM menu) for more ideas: www.putneydesigns.com/catapults/
How do you like the game you created with your catapult? Anything you’d change to make it more fun?
Any questions? Join me this Saturday, November 14th at 1:15 pm on my Facebook Author page to post any questions you have. I’ll be online to answer questions. Who knows? Maybe I’ll even do a quick Facebook live video with some new game tests.
https://www.facebook.com/mktufft
I would love to see how your catapults turned out. Feel free to post photos to my MK Tufft author page, or go to my website, www.putneydesigns.com/catapults/ and upload a photo or link to a video of your catapult for a chance to win an autographed copy of one of my books. Just scroll down to the bottom of my catapults page where it says “Submit a photo or video of your experiment.”
Join me next week for more insights on how catapults work, and how to improve your designs!
Cheers!
Dr. Marsha Tufft, engineer, author, & speaker
The goal of my new YouTube channel is to feature a new STEM experiment or Design Project teaching the engineering design cycle each week. Here’s the link to the channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPA9hiqwQJExem5WXaQhu6g/
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If you haven’t built your catapult yet, check out last week’s video:
