P9- Hot Wheels

Using Hot Wheels, Speedometry ,Skylar and I created a 13ft long track on the 6th grade hallway stairs because we wanted to see how long it would take the car to go down. We tested on two different staircases to see if there was a differene in our data. We had to use two iPads. One for camera, one for a stopwatch.

During this process, I learned that there is quite a bit you have to do before making the track. We had to make a to-do list. On that list was, measuring the length and width of the stairs, building the track, and more.

The 7 standards of the class are Empowered Learner, Digital Citizen, Knowledge Constructor, Innovative Designer, Computational Thinker, Creative Communicator, and Global Collaborator. My project ties to Innovative Designer, and Empowered Learner. I would be these because, I was actively doing this project and expanding my mind to make the track and do the math to make it work.

A challenge I overcame on this project was we were originally going to do two different tracks. We could not make this work, because we only had enough connectors to make one track.. I was able to overcome this by, just making one track and testing it with two different cars. We also decided to use two different stair cases and use the same track and cars and record data and compare them. As you can tell, On the first stair case, the yellow car went slower than it did on the other stairs. Also, the orange car went faster than it did on the other stair case.

Given a chance to do this again, I would change the way the track was. The reason why I would change it is because iy was very simple and straight because we did not have much time to make it complex. Next time, we could maybe put a few loops or something more exciting in it.

This project connect to careers in babysitting and architect. For babysitting, I could help the kid build a hot wheels track and make it super awesome. For architect, I could build things off of the measurements that I record. On the first stair case, the yellow car went slower than it did on the other stairs. Also, the orange car went faster than it did on the other stair case.

Below is the data from the first staircase. On the left is the yellow car (the second car) and on the right is the orange car (first car in video)

This is the final video of our project. The first part of the video is the orange car, the second is the yellow car. This is the first staircase we did. This is the staircase from the 6th grade hallway that leads to the 7th grade hallway.

These our the times for the second staircase. On the left is the yellow car (first car in video) on the right is the orange car (second car in video)

This was our to-do list we had to complete in order to finish our project.