Room 12's Car Factory

To close our "Position and Motion" unit in Science, we turned our classroom into a car factory. We learnt about how a wheel and axle works, and then tried to build our own.  We all had a lot of great ideas.  We used juice boxes for the body of the car.  For the wheel and axle we used wooden sticks, straws, and water bottle caps.
Our cars are creative.  We made a taxis, race cars, a helicopter car, dump trucks, tanks, delivery cars, a fireworks car, a bus and a cannon car.  Once we finished creating our cars we tested them on an inclined plane to make sure that the wheel and axle worked properly.

Now we are writing a book about our cars to share with parents at the open house in December.  We can hardly wait for the next design project.