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Car Collision Testing & Tradeoffs: Don’t Crack Humpty
| Content Provider | TeachEngineering: STEM curriculum for K-12 |
|---|---|
| Author | Beaurivage, Scott Riley, Justin Gelais, Ryan St. |
| Copyright Year | 2013 |
| Description | During this in-depth physics-science-technology-math activity, student teams create a device or enclosure on a generic car base to protect an egg as it rolls down a variable-slope ramp and crashes. They design, build and test their prototypes to meet the design criteria and then analyze their collected data including calculating a cost-to-benefit ratio. Student groups are provided with a generic car base on which to design a device/enclosure to protect an egg as it rolls down a ramp at increasing slopes. During this in-depth physics-science-technology-math activity, student teams design, build and test their prototype creations to meet the design challenge, and then perform basic mathematical calculations using collected data, including a summative cost-benefit ratio. The activity has great potential to build on with additional physics and math explorations. Many student handouts are provided. |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Rights Holder | Regents of The University of Colorado Worcester Polytechnic Institute |
| Subject Keyword | Algebra Science and Technology Mass Friction Acceleration Center of Gravity Inertia Material Properties Cost to Benefit Ratio Gravity Newton's Laws Engineering Design Process Ratio |
| Content Type | Text |
| Time Required | PT3H |
| Education Level | Class VI Class VII Class VIII Class IX Class X |
| Pedagogy | Experimental Activity |
| Resource Type | Hands-on |
| Subject | Modern Physics Technical |
