Roller Coasters
Nichole, ubiquitous
How would you go about helping your child to learn about roller coasters?
After we looked at pictures of roller coasters online and went to various amusement park sites, I remembered hearing about a game called Roller Coaster Tycoon, wherein you can make your own roller coasters. We got the game and then Margaux's computer crashed. So, we will probably install it tomorrow. We've talked a little about centrifugal force and we swung buckets of water upside down in a circle so Margaux (7) could see how the water stays in the bucket just like people stay in the roller coaster when it goes upside down. What else can we do?
All ideas greatly appreciated!
Thanks in advance,
Nichole
Unschooling mama of Margaux (7)
Wife to love-of-my-life-Shahram
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After we looked at pictures of roller coasters online and went to various amusement park sites, I remembered hearing about a game called Roller Coaster Tycoon, wherein you can make your own roller coasters. We got the game and then Margaux's computer crashed. So, we will probably install it tomorrow. We've talked a little about centrifugal force and we swung buckets of water upside down in a circle so Margaux (7) could see how the water stays in the bucket just like people stay in the roller coaster when it goes upside down. What else can we do?
All ideas greatly appreciated!
Thanks in advance,
Nichole
Unschooling mama of Margaux (7)
Wife to love-of-my-life-Shahram
We are here to do.
And through doing to learn;
and through learning to know;
and through knowing to experience wonder;
and through wonder to attain wisdom;
and through wisdom to find simplicity;
and simplicity to give attention;
and through attention to see what needs to be done.
from the Pirke Avot (Sayings or Ethics of the Fathers)
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carelia
> How would you go about helping your child to learn about rollerif you can afford it, this looks like a lot of fun:
> coasters?
http://familyfun.knex.com/wild_rides.php
What a cool thing to be interested in!
C.
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In a message dated 9/12/2004 4:09:33 PM Central Standard Time,
ms_fausey@... writes:
What else can we do?
~~~
You can go ride rollercoasters! My son has been riding them since he was
about 4. He can't work up the courage go to on the really big ones, like
Raptor or Top-Thrill Dragster at Cedar Point. He is very fascinated by them,
though. He avoided ones that made you go upside down until last year (he's
almost 11) and now he avoids really high ones.
He builds mondo roller-coasters on RCT, as well. He knows all about how they
are built and how they work, just because of RCT. Sometimes that hasn't
been helpful when he's trying to work up his courage to ride a new one, though.
RCT is kind of buggy, though. It has crashed various of our computers as
well, and it matters about what kind of processor, etc., of the computer. On
this newest computer we have no problems. It's a great program otherwise,
though. He has learned so much about money and managing things from that
program. I posted once about the words he has learned from RCT. I wonder if I can
find that? If I do, I'll repost.
Karen
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ms_fausey@... writes:
What else can we do?
~~~
You can go ride rollercoasters! My son has been riding them since he was
about 4. He can't work up the courage go to on the really big ones, like
Raptor or Top-Thrill Dragster at Cedar Point. He is very fascinated by them,
though. He avoided ones that made you go upside down until last year (he's
almost 11) and now he avoids really high ones.
He builds mondo roller-coasters on RCT, as well. He knows all about how they
are built and how they work, just because of RCT. Sometimes that hasn't
been helpful when he's trying to work up his courage to ride a new one, though.
RCT is kind of buggy, though. It has crashed various of our computers as
well, and it matters about what kind of processor, etc., of the computer. On
this newest computer we have no problems. It's a great program otherwise,
though. He has learned so much about money and managing things from that
program. I posted once about the words he has learned from RCT. I wonder if I can
find that? If I do, I'll repost.
Karen
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Robyn Coburn
<<<<How would you go about helping your child to learn about roller
coasters?>>>
The answer to this question might depend on why your child wants to know
about them...is it overcoming a fear, wanting to know about the physics,
interested in construction, preparing for a vacation at Disneyland (go to
the little one in Toontown first!), some other reason I'm not thinking
of....?
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The answer to this question might depend on why your child wants to know
about them...is it overcoming a fear, wanting to know about the physics,
interested in construction, preparing for a vacation at Disneyland (go to
the little one in Toontown first!), some other reason I'm not thinking
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In a message dated 9/12/2004 7:26:18 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
carelia@... writes:
How would you go about helping your child to learn about roller
http://familyfun.knex.com/wild_rides.php
What a cool thing to be interested in!<<<
OH! And there's club for roller coaster fanatics. Their goal is to ride on
every coaster! I have friends who are members. They have jackets and
everything!
For those of you who were at the first two conferences, that's Christian
Thee and his partner, Bruce. They are huge coster fans!
~Kelly
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carelia@... writes:
How would you go about helping your child to learn about roller
> coasters?if you can afford it, this looks like a lot of fun:
http://familyfun.knex.com/wild_rides.php
What a cool thing to be interested in!<<<
OH! And there's club for roller coaster fanatics. Their goal is to ride on
every coaster! I have friends who are members. They have jackets and
everything!
For those of you who were at the first two conferences, that's Christian
Thee and his partner, Bruce. They are huge coster fans!
~Kelly
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Nancy Wooton
on 9/12/04 2:08 PM, Nichole, ubiquitous at ms_fausey@... wrote:
OK, if that's too simple, there have been a couple of excellent TV programs
about them we've enjoyed. Try "google."
Nancy (who is quite chicken.)
--
You are never too old to be what you might have been.
-George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans), novelist (1819-1880)
> How would you go about helping your child to learn about roller coasters?Ride one?
OK, if that's too simple, there have been a couple of excellent TV programs
about them we've enjoyed. Try "google."
Nancy (who is quite chicken.)
--
You are never too old to be what you might have been.
-George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans), novelist (1819-1880)
Nichole, ubiquitous
She's not quite there, yet, but I'm hoping next season she will be after finding out more about them and talking to friends. We're going to be writing letters to all Margaux's friends and some relatives asking about their roller coaster experiences. :o) And when Margaux's done playing some roller coaster game on the net (she's doing that right now), we're going to try to install RCT. Yippee!
Thank you for the great info about it. :o)
Nichole
Thank you for the great info about it. :o)
Nichole
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From: tuckervill2@...
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Sent: Sunday, September 12, 2004 4:49 PM
Subject: Re: [AlwaysLearning] Roller Coasters
RCT is kind of buggy, though. It has crashed various of our computers as
well, and it matters about what kind of processor, etc., of the computer. On
this newest computer we have no problems. It's a great program otherwise,
though. He has learned so much about money and managing things from that
program. I posted once about the words he has learned from RCT. I wonder if I can
find that? If I do, I'll repost.
Karen
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Nichole, ubiquitous
She wants to know about them because of a conversation I had with her dad about my love of them and his fear of them. :o)
Nichole
Nichole
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From: Robyn Coburn
To: [email protected]
Sent: Sunday, September 12, 2004 5:08 PM
Subject: RE: [AlwaysLearning] Roller Coasters
The answer to this question might depend on why your child wants to know
about them...is it overcoming a fear, wanting to know about the physics,
interested in construction, preparing for a vacation at Disneyland (go to
the little one in Toontown first!), some other reason I'm not thinking
of....?
Robyn L. Coburn
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Nichole, ubiquitous
Wow, the peak in that is taller than she is. That would be very cool to put together! Thank you!
:o)
Nichole
:o)
Nichole
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From: carelia
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Sent: Sunday, September 12, 2004 4:11 PM
Subject: Re: [AlwaysLearning] Roller Coasters
> How would you go about helping your child to learn about roller
> coasters?
if you can afford it, this looks like a lot of fun:
http://familyfun.knex.com/wild_rides.php
What a cool thing to be interested in!
C.
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Nichole, ubiquitous
Oooh, I'll tell her about that. That would be fun! She hasn't been on even one yet, but that would be a great thing to keep in the back of her mind. She has Texas, Ohio, and Pennsylvania and Florida that she visits with regularity. Maybe we could start a coaster journal!... Sounds like fun. :o)
Thanks, Kelly!
Nichole
Thanks, Kelly!
Nichole
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From: kbcdlovejo@...
To: [email protected]
Sent: Sunday, September 12, 2004 7:41 PM
Subject: Re: [AlwaysLearning] Roller Coasters
OH! And there's club for roller coaster fanatics. Their goal is to ride on
every coaster! I have friends who are members. They have jackets and
everything!
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Sondra Carr
The culmination of all roller coasters excursions would have to be the
almost insanely frightening "Roaster-Coaster" which I believe can only be
ridden at Burning Man and occasionally in the backyard of the designer's
house (in Michigan - I think.) But I would save that for a graduation
present as its designers claim that it's fueled by "go-go power."
Sondra
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From: Nichole, ubiquitous [mailto:ms_fausey@...]
Sent: Monday, September 13, 2004 3:08 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [AlwaysLearning] Roller Coasters
Oooh, I'll tell her about that. That would be fun! She hasn't been on even
one yet, but that would be a great thing to keep in the back of her mind.
She has Texas, Ohio, and Pennsylvania and Florida that she visits with
regularity. Maybe we could start a coaster journal!... Sounds like fun.
:o)
Thanks, Kelly!
Nichole
almost insanely frightening "Roaster-Coaster" which I believe can only be
ridden at Burning Man and occasionally in the backyard of the designer's
house (in Michigan - I think.) But I would save that for a graduation
present as its designers claim that it's fueled by "go-go power."
Sondra
-----Original Message-----
From: Nichole, ubiquitous [mailto:ms_fausey@...]
Sent: Monday, September 13, 2004 3:08 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [AlwaysLearning] Roller Coasters
Oooh, I'll tell her about that. That would be fun! She hasn't been on even
one yet, but that would be a great thing to keep in the back of her mind.
She has Texas, Ohio, and Pennsylvania and Florida that she visits with
regularity. Maybe we could start a coaster journal!... Sounds like fun.
:o)
Thanks, Kelly!
Nichole
----- Original Message -----
From: kbcdlovejo@...
To: [email protected]
Sent: Sunday, September 12, 2004 7:41 PM
Subject: Re: [AlwaysLearning] Roller Coasters
OH! And there's club for roller coaster fanatics. Their goal is to ride on
every coaster! I have friends who are members. They have jackets and
everything!
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Kelli Traaseth
***if you can afford it, this looks like a lot of fun:
http://familyfun.knex.com/wild_rides.php
What a cool thing to be interested in!***
It is a very cool set, my son put it together. He also was into roller coasters for a while. Keep your eyes open for sales, we got ours for more than 50% off!
We love it when it screams as the car reaches the top of the hill. <g>
Kelli~
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http://familyfun.knex.com/wild_rides.php
What a cool thing to be interested in!***
It is a very cool set, my son put it together. He also was into roller coasters for a while. Keep your eyes open for sales, we got ours for more than 50% off!
We love it when it screams as the car reaches the top of the hill. <g>
Kelli~
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Gold Standard
The mention of Burning Man brought to mine an independent documentary that
was done on a fellow who went to Burning Man with an experiment. He went
with nothing at all, not even clothes, to see if he could live in this
week-long self-sustaining desert art community on just the generosity of
others. It is an amazing indie film called Nothing Without You. I won't tell
you the ending, but the generosity of others can go so far! I'm not sure of
the DIRECT correlation with unschooling, however I could come up with a
whole bunch of INDIRECT correlations :) I'll post the website link when I
find it.
Jacki
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From: Sondra Carr [mailto:sondracarr@...]
Sent: Monday, September 13, 2004 12:52 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [AlwaysLearning] Roller Coasters
The culmination of all roller coasters excursions would have to be the
almost insanely frightening "Roaster-Coaster" which I believe can only be
ridden at Burning Man and occasionally in the backyard of the designer's
house (in Michigan - I think.) But I would save that for a graduation
present as its designers claim that it's fueled by "go-go power."
Sondra
-----Original Message-----
From: Nichole, ubiquitous [mailto:ms_fausey@...]
Sent: Monday, September 13, 2004 3:08 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [AlwaysLearning] Roller Coasters
Oooh, I'll tell her about that. That would be fun! She hasn't been on even
one yet, but that would be a great thing to keep in the back of her mind.
She has Texas, Ohio, and Pennsylvania and Florida that she visits with
regularity. Maybe we could start a coaster journal!... Sounds like fun.
:o)
Thanks, Kelly!
Nichole
was done on a fellow who went to Burning Man with an experiment. He went
with nothing at all, not even clothes, to see if he could live in this
week-long self-sustaining desert art community on just the generosity of
others. It is an amazing indie film called Nothing Without You. I won't tell
you the ending, but the generosity of others can go so far! I'm not sure of
the DIRECT correlation with unschooling, however I could come up with a
whole bunch of INDIRECT correlations :) I'll post the website link when I
find it.
Jacki
-----Original Message-----
From: Sondra Carr [mailto:sondracarr@...]
Sent: Monday, September 13, 2004 12:52 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [AlwaysLearning] Roller Coasters
The culmination of all roller coasters excursions would have to be the
almost insanely frightening "Roaster-Coaster" which I believe can only be
ridden at Burning Man and occasionally in the backyard of the designer's
house (in Michigan - I think.) But I would save that for a graduation
present as its designers claim that it's fueled by "go-go power."
Sondra
-----Original Message-----
From: Nichole, ubiquitous [mailto:ms_fausey@...]
Sent: Monday, September 13, 2004 3:08 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [AlwaysLearning] Roller Coasters
Oooh, I'll tell her about that. That would be fun! She hasn't been on even
one yet, but that would be a great thing to keep in the back of her mind.
She has Texas, Ohio, and Pennsylvania and Florida that she visits with
regularity. Maybe we could start a coaster journal!... Sounds like fun.
:o)
Thanks, Kelly!
Nichole
----- Original Message -----
From: kbcdlovejo@...
To: [email protected]
Sent: Sunday, September 12, 2004 7:41 PM
Subject: Re: [AlwaysLearning] Roller Coasters
OH! And there's club for roller coaster fanatics. Their goal is to ride on
every coaster! I have friends who are members. They have jackets and
everything!
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