Solar Car Race Day!

Please see the previous post to know what led to this exciting day at DATA!

First we met in class and went over the instructions of how to complete the data collection from. Then students got their cars and took off to the race tracks!

The goal was to time how fast each car could go on a ten foot track. Each team got three turns, and each timed score was written down.


Clip boards in hand... ready to collect data

 on your mark, get set, GO!

 Students collecting data as classmates race their cars.

 A proud group photo

Once back in class students calculated the MEAN for each car (we had 18 teams).
Finally students reflected on the Solar Car project on a message board in Thinkquest.

In addition to these assignments students also:

Student worked on finding the circumference of the wheels and then calculated how many revolutions the wheels would make on a variety of tracks (tracks of different lengths).  They also worked with proportions using the ratio of the revolutions of the drive wheel to that of the other wheels.

Thanks again Mr. Wulff for such an exciting project that integrated science, math, writing and critical thinking!

Also,
Happy Winter Break to all the wonderful Champion students in room B9.
Have a wonderful and safe break and consider reading a book or two duing your two weeks away from school....
Ms. Lynch