Tephra Catapults

Project:     Ola Ka Honua: Volcanoes Alive
Subject:Volcanology
Theme:Volcanoes
Grades:All

In this lesson students will build a spoon catapult to launch washers of different masses, then collect data and graph the results. The distance a washer travels depends on its mass, just as the distance material that is ejected from a volcano travels depends on its mass.

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