Bring Science Alive! Middle School Engineering Challenge: Forces and Energy
Lead your students in a hands-on engineering challenge. Access step-by-step resources for a successful lesson.
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Lead your students in a hands-on engineering challenge. Access step-by-step resources for a successful lesson.
Want to explore other lessons? Go here.
Explore the concepts of energy and force by designing a model go-cart. Go-carts experience many different forces during a race. For example, the force of the engine propels it forward, and the friction of the track slows it down.
In this engineering challenge, you will follow the steps below to design a safe model go-cart:
TCI classrooms are active, fun, and immersive spaces where students confidently question and explore the world as scientists do. With our Bring Science Alive! Forces and Energy program, students solve engineering problems and plan investigations about forces, Newton’s Laws of Motion, kinetic and potential energy, heat, and the thermal properties of matter. With this program, you get:
Are you ready to Bring Learning Alive! in your classroom? Contact us to access program materials, including student and teacher materials and TCI’s digital platform.