Wheeled Vehicle and Moving Air (Grade 2)
Grade: Two
Topics: Energy from Wind and Moving Water; Movement
Design challenge:
- Design and construct a device that uses moving air to make something move.
- Design and construct a wheeled vehicle that will travel as far as possible.
Tools and Materials:
- Large diameter (milkshake) plastic straws,
- wooden clothes pegs,
- paper, axle holders (cardboard triangles [gussets with a hole]),
- eyelets (3/16 in [.4 cm] inside diameter screw eyes or a 3/16 inch [.4 cm] diameter hole,
- wooden dowels (.4 cm),
- wheels (e.g., commercial cardboard, pressboard, or wooden; found materials such as metal or plastic lids with holes punched in them),
- carpenter’s glue,
- simple wooden frame made out of 1 cm x 1 cm bass wood (see Grade 1 Skill Builder 4);
- Scissors,
- safety snips,
- cardboard, coroplast, boxboard (card stock, including index cards),
- hacksaw,
- mitre box,
- round wooden dowel (.4 cm diameter),
- low temperature glue gun and glue,
- paper frog drawings,
- white glue,
- elastic bands,
- paper awl