Build-Your-Own-Sled Race

1.What is the engineering principle that the children will learn?

2.What is the activity?

3.What age group is the activity designed for?

4.What will the children do and how will they learn by doing your activity?

5.What will be in the activity box? If appropriate, include a sketch of the activity.

6.How does your activity meet the requirements given above?

1. The children will learn about friction, conservation of energy, and momentum.

2. The children willl build a sled using various components. They will be able to vary the mass and the runner material of the sled as well as the height at which the ramp is held. Their sleds will then be released from the top of their ramps, the winner is the sled that slides out the farthest.

3. The students will be in upper junior high.

4. The children will learn by experimenting with the various parameters that they can vary inorder to build the best sled possible.

5. The activity box will include five sled bodies, a variety of runners, blocks for extra mass, and five ramps.

6. Our activity is able to include 30 children in an activity that teaches them about engineering principles while entertaining them with an enjoyable competition. The body of the sled or perhaps the runners can be made from a dposited material.