Materials
Wagon Sifted Sand Poster Paper Tape Wood Glue Buckets Calculator Distance Sensor |
Set Up
In order to simulate the road sanding process we constructed a paper cone to represent how the sand is dispensed by the sand truck. We needed to make a cone that could hold at least a gallon of sand for the simulation, after several failed attempts to make a sturdy cone we eventually made the cone out of two sheets of poster paper. The two sheets were thick enough to hold the conical shape once the sand was poured in, for extra support we used wood to attach the cone upright within a wagon. The wagon had a grated bottom so the sand could flow freely out. |