Materials List:
Portable Wheelchair Ramp Challenge
https://www.teachengineering.org/activities/view/wpi_empathy_activity3
Each group needs:
- cardstock strips
- cardboard strips
- cardstock sheets
- plastic drinking straws
- plastic coffee stirrers
- hot glue gun with hot glue sticks
- scissors
- 3 rulers, one per student
- measuring tape
- graph paper and pencils
- Portable Wheelchair Ramp Packet, one per student
- model all-terrain wheelchair prototype created in Off-Road Wheelchair Challenge, for sizing prototype ramp
To share with the entire class (for testing):
- 1 bucket, to hold weights
- 2 7-lb (~3 kg) weights