Vtech is a toy company producing learning toys and educational products for kids. They incorporate technology in their products to promote learning and development in young minds.
Let your kids send marbles into motion, build thrilling courses, and compete with friends and family in these exciting challenges with lights and sounds. Each Marble Rush set has colour-coded blocks to create various courses, catering to both beginners and advanced levels. They may also create their own playing field with endless possibilities.
Teaching Kids Gravity and Friction with Marble Rush
Kids today can learn basic Physics principles the fun way. Marble Rush sets can unlock the concepts of gravity and friction, offering them lots of opportunities for practical exercises.
How it teaches gravity
The game with marble runs aims for kids to drop things down from a height and propel them up and down a slope. And this ties directly with gravity which science defines as the force attracting a body to the centre of the earth or any other body with mass.
Let your kids observe gravitational pull as they drop marbles on the tracks they have built from various angles and heights. You can further solidify their learnings by asking them about the ball's movement as the slope gets steeper.
How it teaches friction
Friction refers to the motion of a single object that is moving relative to another. Your kids can notice such an effect as they build amazing marble runs, especially when textures are added to the marble’s behaviour as it moves through the track. For example, they will learn that marbles rolled over plastic reacts differently from those rolled on the grass.
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Facilitate your child’s scientific discovery by giving them any of the following Marble Rush sets:
Marble Rush Adventure Set
This exciting colour-coded playset features all the pieces you need to create an adventure full of stunts, jumps, and even an electronic Ferris Wheel. With 10 marbles to drop and launch and 135 building pieces to assemble, your kids can have lots of fun with you or other kids.
Marble Rush Launch Pad
Get your kids ready as they explore the space with this colour-coded playset. It features pieces to create an outer space-themed adventure filled with stunts, jumps, and an electronic spaceship. When marbles run through the spacecraft, cool music and sound effects are triggers, enhancing your kid’s adventure. It includes 10 marbles to launch and drop over the different courses using the 79 building pieces.
Marble Rush Speedway
This playset has 78 pieces of colour-coded building set, including a starting gate with a musical light show. It also includes fast tracks, a 360-degree loop, a rattling peg maze, and bases your child can easily connect. Once your kids finish the construction, they can launch the five marbles into action, starting from the gate.
Online Toys Australia also offers other Marble Rush sets - the Spiral City, Corkscrew Challenger, and Fun Fair Set. All these playsets include easy-to-follow assembly instructions and are compatible with other VTech Marble Rush items (sold separately). Shop now!
