Friday, March 2, 2018

 In honor of the 2018 Winter Olympics, we froze Lego people  into ice cubes and raced them down tracks in the style of luge, bobsled and skeleton. The races were exciting as we experienced melting, friction, gravity, elevation, acceleration and deceleration. The experiment was a lesson in physics using the simple machine inclined plane.









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