Activity (Hands-On)Grades 9 - 12
Creative Engineering Design: Efficient Car Design
Materials List
Each team needs:
- 5 Popsicle® / hobby sticks
- masking tape, ~24 inches
- 4 Lifesavers® mint candies
- 3 drinking straws (small enough diameter to fit inside the mint candy holes)
- 3 index cards
- scissors
- Efficient Car Design Worksheet (PDF), one per student
To share with the entire class:
- Efficient Car Design PowerPoint (PPTX)
- rain gutter section(s), ~7 ft in length
- duct tape (or other heavy-duty tape)
- Optional: laptop and projector, for showing the PowerPoint/Google Slides presentations
- stopwatch (if racing only one car at a time)