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HallowSTEAM Haunted House Ride

In this one hour course, students will have fun engaging in a HallowSTEAM experience where they will create a Haunted House Ride with trapdoors, tunnels, and more.

Challenge Island Fairmount Park--Rittenhouse

What's included

1 live meeting

1 in-class hours

Class Experience

US Grade 1 - 4

During this session, students will learn how modern roller coasters like Disney’s Thunder Mountain and other mine train themed rides work. 
They will use their materials (from home) and creativity to design a Haunted House Train Ride with as many drops, jolts, and direction changes as possible. The vocabulary covered will be: slope, velocity, and gravity. 
The class will begin engaging in a brief discussion about modern roller coasters and the vocabulary. The students will then draw pictures to brainstorm how they want to create their haunted house. After, students will share their ideas with their peers. They will begin designing and decorating their ride for the majority of the session. Finally, they will share their design and state what they would've done differently, what was fun, and what was challenging. Students will have the entire class to interact with others and be hands-on! There is no prior knowledge to attend this class.

Learning Goals

Students will be able to use the Design Process, predicting, critical thinking/problem solving skills along with the concepts of slope, velocity, & gravity in order to create a HallowSTEAM ride with as many drops, jolts, and direction changes as possible.

Other Details

Supply List

Materials: marbles (at least 2)
 1 piece of Foam Core Board (from Dollar Store is fine) 
8 Cardstock sentence strips (full size) 
3 Small paper cups  (one to serve as Pot of Worms)
black, white, orange streamers (optional--decoration)
10 Black pipe cleaners for spiders (optional--decoration)
1 sheets tissue paper  (to tear up for worms)
Cotton balls for boulders (end of track bumpers)
TAPE, GLUE, MARKERS ...anything to decorate your Haunted Ride

External Resources

Learners will not need to use any apps or websites beyond the standard Outschool tools.

Challenge Island Fairmount Park--Rittenhouse

Joined April, 2023

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Greetings!
We are a STEAM-based,  cross-curricular enrichment program that uses children's natural curiosity and creativity to foster 21st Century Skills by engaging them in hands-on activities using everyday objects in a high-energy, authentic, learning environment.