Activity
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Balloon Cars Revisited: Alternative Fuel Gases

For Students 9th - 10th
In this activity, students use the common balloon cars they created which use air propelled out of a balloon as a fuel source to investigate how different gases (fuels) effect the travel distance of the balloon cars.
Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Cars From the Future

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students learn about air pollution caused by cars and what engineers are doing to try to help with the problem. Students then design their own environmentally friendly car and give a presentation to experience how engineers have to be...