Students practice acceleration.
In this after school class, 12 students built race cars from cardboard, two motors, a battery pack and lots of wire. The project took place after school and was spread over 3 days and took about 5 student hours to complete. I was able to complete all of the soldering the day before students returned to practice “drag racing” their models. Motors were purchased through All Electronics, and though slightly tarnished, were a great purchased at just 50 cents/piece. And, the prepped DPDT rocker switches from All Electronics were another great purchase at just 50 cents/piece.
Gavin’s race car.
You can view a step-by-step slide show at this link. On Friday, students headed over to the cafeteria to try out their creations. All cars ran successfully. This project was inspired by A2C Arts And Crafts YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfPclWXE5ro&t=40s. This was a very popular class so three sessions were scheduled.
You can click the link shown below to view a slideshow for step-by-step directions.
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