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• Curriculum Links
• Challenge Rules
• Design Process
• Making your Vehicle Move
• Fun Friction Investigations
• How can we make the most Creative and Wacky Vehicle?
• Holding your own Wacky Races

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Wacky Races

Fun Friction Investigations

Now try our two fun friction investigations

Activity1: Slide a Shoe

Activity 2: Marble race

 

Experiment …

Now have ask the children to try out different wheels made of different materials, sizes and weights. How does this affect the speed of their vehicle? Make predictions, design a fair test and then investigate.

 

Experiment ...

Now try running your vehicles on different surfaces.

 

Try:

• wooden floor
• tarmac
• carpet.

Which provides the most resistance?

Which surface would they choose to run their vehicle on?

 

Try the Car Constructor interactive on My Learning (see link at bottom of page) to make your own vehicle and see how well it performs on our Streetlife test track.