Kindergarteners Design Their Own Pinball Machine!

Kindergarten classes have been very busy investigating what forces to use when moving the pinball short and long distances; left and right; and hitting a target. They have now taken all that knowledge and designed their own pinball machine!

Planning a design for the pinball machine.

Testing the flippers and bumpers out.

It's all in the fingers!

We used cowbells as the targets for our
pinball machines.

Now the design is put to the test!

It's such a great feeling when your design works!

Trying to find space to test out the pinball machine!

Sometimes it's more fun ringing the incredibly
loud cowbells than trying to hit them with
the ping pong ball!

Dueling pinball machines.

After the design was tested, students went back and made changes to the design to see if the ping pong ball would move better.

Testing out if two targets are better than one.

Testing out a design with 4 flippers instead of
6 flippers to see if the ball moved better (it did).