Energy & Power

Unit Slides All Wound Up

General summary of unit:

•  All wound up has multiple variations and students could actually build 2 cars.  For the first iteration you could have the students design an all would up car out of recycled materials and be forced to create & design their own prop.   During this project you could assist students and guide them.

• You could then have an official competition - 3 Days to design and build their Tech Fair Car.

• If it is your first time teaching it, stick with the unit slides and build one car, it is important for you to build one first.

Skills students need or will develop:

• Skills needed to work through the design process

• Creativity, communication, and continued work on Standards of Workmanship.

All wound up Rubric 

Resources

• Provide a copy to all students (Engineering Design Notebook)

• Work Power and Energy Kahoot

• Energy and Power Kahoot

• All Wound Up Base Lesson Plan

• Design Brief

• AWU Example Student Handout

• Extension activity: web quest 

Student Resource: All Wound Up student project template 

Archived Resources (Non recycle lesson)

• All Wound Up Lesson

• All Wound Up Student Handout

• All wound Up Data Sheet

• Photo of Prop

• Example Cars

• Cloze notes: Potential and Kinetic Energy 

• All wound up project template with data tracking 

Recommended Materials

• 1/8” diameter dowel rod, 12” in length Wooden Dowel Rods

• Drinking straws

• Paper clips

• Paper clips

• Index cards - 4, 3"x5"

• Index cards

• Index Paper – 8.5” x 11”

• Index Paper or manilla folders 

• Rubber bands - 7 or 8 inches long Rubber bands

• Plastic propeller

• Plastic propeller

• Cardboard – wheels 100 Pack 2-1/2 in. dia.

• Cardboard – wheels

• Popsicle stick 4.5 inches long Sticks

• 12 Hot glue guns and 30 Glue sticks Glue guns and sticks