Materials List:
Creative Engineering Design:
Creative Crash Testing
https://www.teachengineering.org/activities/view/ced-2678-creative-crash-testing-car-challenge-activity
Creative Crash Testing
Each team needs:
- a few raw eggs (expect some to break during crash tests)
- model car base kits; such as a wooden car kit at https://www.teachersource.com/product/wooden-car-kit/energy, the engineering sail car class pack (enough for 30 students) at https://www.pitsco.com/Try-This-Engineering-Class-Pack, or individual sail car kits at https://www.pitsco.com/try-this-engineering-kit; alternatively, provide assorted craft supplies from which students construct their own basic model car bases
- assorted building materials, such as cardboard, wooden craft sticks, tag board, foam sheets, felt sheets, cotton or polyester fill, chenille stems/pipe cleaners, plastic drinking straws, string/yarn, rubber bands, balloons
- assorted tools and adhesives, such as rulers, scissors, tape, white glue, hot glue
- wooden board for a ramp, 10-inches wide x 3-5-feet long, to run all model cars down for crash testing; alternatively, use sturdy cardboard
- plastic sheeting, to tape against the wall and floor for mess protection during testing
- washers and duct tape, to add equal weight to all cars, to improve the crash dynamics
- smartphone or tablet, to video record the model cars in slow motion
- stopwatches, for timing crash tests
- (optional) Internet access for researching current car safety features
- Creative Crash Testing Worksheet
For the entire class to share:
- Creative Crash Testing PowerPoint Presentation
- white board and marker or laptop with projector
- digital scale, to measure car mass