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Marbles For Good
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Rich Maxwell MS Elem. Educ.
Marbles For Good
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Rich Maxwell MS Elem. Educ.
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212 Vacor / Mega Marble and House of Marbles distributed in the US. Picture credits: Didier Gilles’s amazing website: www.billes-en-tete.com

Marble Max Tracks Instructions 7 Projects December 2022 (pdf)Download
Marbles in Motion - teachable moments (pdf)Download

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Marbles For Good by Rich Maxwell MS ED contains 82 activities that will inspire kids to be  EXCEPTIONAL!

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Student Worksheets

Legal Size Coloring Page-NewtonBuiltModels (pdf)Download
Classifying Old Marbles (pdf)Download
Six Marble Track Challenges (pdf)Download
I spy (pdf)Download
Marbles Sizes Handout (pdf)Download
Marble Sizes and The Solar System (pdf)Download
Activity - Label the Principles of Motion (pdf)Download

Video Downloads

Identifing Cats Eye Marbles

 Stephen Bahr provides a great discussion and pictures of Cats Eyes. 

Rolley Hole Marble Tournament

The Rolley Hole tournament is held at Standing Stone State Park, near Livingston, TN. The park maintains six indoor and outdoor marble yards. 

Cherokee Marbles

The Cherokees have played marbles for 100's of years.

Kids "Knuckling Down"

Everyone at the National Marbles Tournament, in Wildwood, NJ, shoots by Knuckling Down.

Downloads Handouts

Ready for students to uses a references

Instruction-How to make a Perfect Circle (pdf)Download
Instructions for Flicking and Knuckling Down (pdf)Download
Instructions on Flicking and Knuckling Down (pdf)Download
Rules of Ringer Handout-4 per page (pdf)Download
Classifying Old Marbles (pdf)Download
Brief Summary of Six Marble Track Challenges (pdf)Download
Classifying Old Marbles by Features (pdf)Download
Five Page Classic Marbles Handout (pdf)Download
Letter-Size Classic Marble Picture 6 Pages (pdf)Download
Mega Marbles Legal Size Pocket Guide (pdf)Download
Mega Marbles Legal Size Pocket Guide Page 2 (pdf)Download
Rule to Ringer Pocket-Size Handout- 4 per page (pdf)Download
Cartoon Version-RingerRules-Take Home (pdf)Download

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Leader Instructions Free Downloads

Working With Cardboard (png)Download
How to make Hoop Rings. (docx)Download
Technique for Knuckling Down (pdf)Download
Rules for GA Rolley Hole (pdf)Download
How to make Hoop Rings. (docx)Download
How to make a LoopDeLoop-Measurements (pdf)Download
How to make Polymer Clay Marbles (pdf)Download

Doug Watson teaching Backspin

  

https://www.facebook.com/douglas.watson.37604/videos/605560422926441

Links to How Marbles are Made Videos (pdf)Download

Downloads Lesson ideas

Engineering in After School Programs. Lesson Plans copied from https://4h.okstate.edu/projects/science-and-technology/site-files/docs/design-it-balls-and-tracks.pdf

Faith-based Bro Lawrence (pdf)Download
Faith-based Study of Brother_Lawrence (pdf)Download
TrackingWithIsaacNewton-4-Part Unit (pdf)Download
TrackingWithIsaacNewton-Faith-Based 4-Part Unit (pdf)Download
18 Project Based Learning Ideas (pdf)Download
18 STEM Learning Ideas (pdf)Download
Build A Sky Jump Lesson Plans (pdf)Download
Isaac Newton- Rainbow Colors Chart (pdf)Download
Marble Sizes and The Solar System (pdf)Download

Downloads Leader Resources

Tons of "Good" ideas and information worth reading.

US Marbles History -The Akron Ohio Toy Business (pdf)Download
Cornel University Timeline on Material Dependency (pdf)Download
Makerspaces-Bringing Creativity to the Classroom (pdf)Download
More Information on Cats Eyes (pdf)Download
TX Alamodome-Marble Artifacts Report-Page100 (pdf)Download
Yes. Marbles are Artifacts (pdf)Download
All About The Game of Rolley Hole (pdf)Download
Makerspace Creativity at Home (pdf)Download
Library Statue of Kids Playing Marbles (pdf)Download
Early Early Marbles (pdf)Download

Download visual aids

Christensen (11) Slag Marbles (jpg)Download
IllustrationForDrawingAPerfectCircle (png)Download
VisualAid-InvisibleForces-Poster (pdf)Download
VisualAid-MarblesInMositon-Newton-Legal size (pdf)Download
VisualAid-MarksOfAGreatMarble (pdf)Download
VisualAid-Stone and Clay Marble 1860 (pdf)Download
VisualAid-Talking Points Laws of Motion (8.5x11Sheet) (pdf)Download
22x28 Poster-Mega-Marble-Name it and claim it (pdf)Download
LoopDeLoop Picture (pdf)Download
Marbles Display Ideas (pdf)Download
MFChristensenHandSlagsPictures (pdf)Download

Online Content to support Marbles For Good March / 2020

Don't think someone else is going to care.

Get to know Rich Maxwell MS. ED., know by many as "Mr. Rich".

Get to know Rich Maxwell MS. ED., know by many as "Mr. Rich".

After over 250 marbles events with 1,000's of kids, my hope is Marbles For Good will inpower people who care about kids, providing them with the 100's of  idea I have develped over the past 8 yeas. 

Get to know Rich Maxwell MS. ED., know by many as "Mr. Rich".

Get to know Rich Maxwell MS. ED., know by many as "Mr. Rich".

Get to know Rich Maxwell MS. ED., know by many as "Mr. Rich".

  

To promote his passion for marbles, for the past eight years “Mr. Rich”, a retired elementary school teacher, has been organizing after school Marbles Clubs in the Shawnee Kansas Elementary Schools and Marble Camps for kids in Kansas and Missouri. Check out Mr. Rich on Facebook: www.Facebook.com/makeitallaboutmarbles



You can learn to shoot marbles

 Anyone, large or small, athletic or not, boy or girls, old or young, geek or not, can win playing marbles. – Rich Maxwell
 

Ringer is a marble game you will see played  everywhere. Scouts are awarded a badge or pin for learning the game and  teaching it to someone. Ringer is played at local and national  tournaments.


In the early 1930’s over 3 million boys and girls ages 7 to 14,  competed at local tournaments to decide who would go to the National  Marbles Tournament. Ringer has been the official game played at the  tournament held in Wildwood, New Jersey each year in June, since 1922.


How to play: To begin a round, set out 13 target marbles, in the shape of a cross or plus sign (“+”) in the middle of a circle.

 

The two players lag their shooter marble across the ring to a line or  the edge of the marble yard. The player whose shooter lands closest to  the line or edge goes first. Player One takes his first shot from  outside the ring, “knuckles down” –  at least one knuckle touching the  ground flicking their shooter with their  thumb.  If you knock a target marble out of the ring, and your shooter  remains inside the ring, you shoot again from where your shooter lands.  If you miss or your shooter goes outside the ring, your turn is over.  (If you’re using a hula hoop for a ring, touching the hoop is  out-of-bounds.)  The first person to knock seven marbles out of the  ring, wins.

Official Ringer tournament rules also include the following:

  • Only glass or stone shooters, ½” to ¾” in diameter, are permitted.
  • If your shooter goes outside the big ring, your turn is over.
  • Your shot doesn’t count if you lift or move your shooter hand forward while you are shooting. These are called a lift and fudging.
  • You can only call “slips” (Page 5) once per game.

Organize a marbles tournament. Pictured below are  3-feet square “marble boards”, which I use to practice shooting knuckles  down and playing Ringer, at festivals, after-school clubs and during  tournaments.

Set up double-elimination brackets, making sure players are paired  according to age and level of experience. Or divide the group into  experienced and inexperience divisions and challenge players to play one  game with everyone in their division.


Keep track of everyone’s score. First place goes to the player with  the most wins and/or points. Second place and third place point are also  recognized at an award ceremony, complete with prizes, ribbons or big  rounds of applause!


As a child we played “marbles”.   Players would ante  up 3 or 4 marbles, which were placed in the middle of the circle drawn  in the dirt. Everyone carried a favorite shooter, a ball bearing, called  a “Steele” or a stone marble, called an “Aggie”, which you guarded  with your live. We “played for keeps”, which means you take home what  you knock out of the circle. This is also where the term, “Lost your  marbles” originated.

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