Class, start your engines. Future engineers design a car with old CDs as wheels. The power source? Some rubber bands will do the trick! This is the first installment of a five-part series.

Concepts

engineering design, cars, rubber bands, potential energy, kinetic energy

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Additional Tags

science

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Instructional Ideas

• Have a class race to see which car goes the fastest
  

Classroom Considerations

• Activity requires a variety of materials
• Some familiarity with potential and kinetic energy is beneficial but not necessary
  

Pros

• Professional-looking worksheets
• Instructions include diagrams with numbers corresponding to the instruction step
  

Cons

• None