For Families
- Essential Experiment: Harnessing Energy
- Makes a great birthday party for !
Students construct cars powered by rubber bands and measure their performance after 20 minutes of practice. Lively insights into the mechanics, measurement and math of motion. Great for a followup program on creative elaboration. New design now employs wheels of diameter 1/π.
Exploration and problem solving becomes obvious when a student has to question why someone's car went further or faster.
