Each group needs:

• scissors
• paper and pencil
• Design Worksheet, one per student
• (for optional extension activity) Market Your Mint-Mobile Worksheet, one per group

For the entire class to share:

• plastic drinking straws (about 100 total; make sure the straw diameter is smaller than the mint candy’s hole diameter)
• Popsicle sticks (about 60 total)
• Lifesaver-shaped candies, such as Lifesaver® mints (about 100 total)
• index cards or thin cardboard or poster board scraps the size of index cards (about 30 total)
• tape, any type; duct or masking preferred; cut into 15 cm (~6 in) long strips
• ramp, for testing, made from sturdy poster board, rigid cardboard or thin wood
• Gather two pieces of poster board, rigid cardboard, or thin wood of different lengths, for testing the independent variable of ramp length
• masking tape, for securing the ramp
• meter stick, for measuring the distance traveled
• pennies (about 60 total)
• scale (kitchen scale or similar, must be able to measure mass in grams)
• (optional) hot glue gun and glue sticks
• (for optional extension activity)
• markers and/or colored pencils
• scotch tape
• poster board