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=Roller Coaster Tycoon=

Interactives Encyclopedia Britannica's Animation of Roller Coaster Physics Concepts http://search.eb.com/coasters/ride.html Interactive Roller Coaster Activity from Fear of Physics: How to Make a Roller Coaster Work http://www.fearofphysics.com/Roller/roller.html Interactive Roller Coaster Information from PBS http://www.learner.org/interactives/parkphysics/

__Lesson Plans__ The Ultimate Roller Coaster Contest lesson plan (6-8 Physical Science) http://school.discoveryeducation.com/lessonplans/programs/rollercoaster/ Scream Machine: A Roller Coaster WebQuest http://teacherweb.com/MD/OxonHillMS/TechEffectScreamMachineWebQuest/ It's a Wild Ride: A Roller Coaster Design Project http://www.intel.com/education/projects/wildride/index.htm Amusement Park Physics Day Support Material from NASA http://exploration.grc.nasa.gov/outreach/appd/appd_resources.html Teacher's Guide for Effective Use of Roller Coaster Tycoon II in the Classroom at http://www.brainmeld.org/TeachingGuideLibrary/BrainMeld-RollerCoasterTycoon2-Latini.pdf

Resources Roller Coaster Database http://www.rcdb.com/

=How Would You Use the above Links?= (Followup Activity: Add your ideas here or e-mail them to susan.stansberry@okstate.edu) I would use the Roller Coaster Database to support math lessons. Rather than just giving students a worksheet with problems, I would have them go to the database to find the average height of roller coasters in the United States compared to Canada. (Susan)

http://www.learner.org/interactives/parkphysics/ This would be a great site for Language Arts students to go to in order to write a narrative or a essay about roller coasters. It has historic information with some great use of descriptive writing. The information is presented in a way that would be relevant and interesting for students. Not all information will be found on this website to write a complete essay, but it has enough information for a good start. (Nikole Kelty) http://www.intel.com/education/projects/wildride/index.htm This website would be a great site to help teachers set up how to do the project and presentation. It has some skills listed that students would use while doing this project. If I was doing a project over roller coasters I would send students here as a way to help them start setting up their project. This site has little to no infomation on actual roller coasters and would be very difficult for my age group (6th) to comprehend. This website really seems to be geared toward an older set of students. (Nikole Kelty) http://exploration.grc.nasa.gov/outreach/appd/appd_resources.html This website has a great little trivia game. It would also be awesome for students interested in NASA. The information to do with roller coasters is limited. I think you would have to buy rights to view the whole concept about what NASA has developed. What I could actually see seemed to be good, but limited. I would like to be able to go on and further search this roller coaster area of the website and really see how the lesson plans are set up. What is available might give a little help to teachers on how to set up certain skills of a roller coaster lesson plan, but not too much. The Nasa part seemed to be really in depth and would be great for space exploration activities. (Nikole Kelty)

http://www.learner.org/interactives/parkphysics/ I would use this site to help students gain an understanding of how the roller coaster works as well as tghe safety issues involved. They can build their own roller coaster on this site with very few choices, but with an explanation of why their roller coaster is or is not safe or fun. (Ronda Hill, LMS, Pawnee High School)

http://www.brainmeld.org/TeachingGuideLibrary/BrainMeld-RollerCoasterTycoon2-Latini.pdf This is a great site for those of us who are Roller Coaster Tycoon fans. It gives objectives and standards for mathematics, and gives ideas on how to use the game to teach those standards. It gives step by step instructions on installing and playing the game. (Ronda Hill, LMS, Pawnee High School)

[|http://search.eb.com/coasters/ride.html] This particular site could be used as an assessment tool on how well students understand key terms relating to kinematics. (Karen Moydell and Heather McDonell, Fort Gibson Middle School)

http://www.fearofphysics.com/Roller/roller.html This would be a great site to use as a teaching exercise in collaboration with the Technology Education and Language Arts teacher. This site would be an excellent tool for students to use to gain a basic understanding of how roller coasters work and what variables need to be addressed when designing and building a roller coaster. The language art's class would create a descriptive writing describing the sights, sounds, and emotions of riding a roller coaster. (Karen Moydell and Heather McDonell, Fort Gibson Middle School)

http://www.learner.org/interactives/parkphysics/ This site would be used for students to make a computer model of a roller coaster and to determine if their design would be considered safe for the rider yet also be an exhilarating experience. Students will use the Internet to research concepts and designs pertaining to roller coasters. The information gained from the research and the model will be used to create a roller coaster using a physical model kit as a technology education class assignment. (Karen Moydell and Heather McDonell, Fort Gibson Middle School)

** Superland **** Theme Park (Jana Shelton) ** Research a real world roller coaster from an amusement park. Choose one from the following parks: Six Flags (anywhere) Busch Gardens (anywhere) Cedar Point (Sandusky, OH) Hershey Park (Pennsylvania) Sea World (anywhere) Disney Land, World (California and Florida) Universal Studios MGM Any other minor park you can find Get as much information on the coaster as you can: speed, hills, construction, car type, wheel size, etc. Construct in your Powerpoint project, a section to explain the physics involved in making your rollercoaster: friction, air resistance, wheel size to speed, type of track, forces of gravity, centripetal force, force with velocity, etc. Be sure to include the effects of weather on your coaster (support the train as it goes around, etc.). Your Powerpoint presentation must include the information you gathered in the above tasks. The more complete the better your grade. Include 10 -12 slides total, a title slide, at least one graph, photos or graphics, and Works Cited slide with at least three sources.