In this mini-lab the 8th graders were investigating the transfer of energy between objects of various masses and traveling at different speeds. It became quite evident that the more mass or the more speed the objects had, the more available kinetic energy it also had to transfer to another object if it were to collide. Students completed the lab with a marble, a baseball and a gopher ball (all have varying masses) and the goal was to see which ball would transfer more energy to a cup at the bottom of a ramp. The cup was placed at a known starting point and after the ball collided with the cup and moved it, students measured the distance the cup was pushed. At the end of the lab the scholars compared their data between the 3 balls and determined which ball provided the most kinetic energy and which was able to transfer the most energy.