Lesson Planning
Powered Transport – elastic band vehicles
Topics Reception/Year 1
This unit is part of
Famous for more than Five Minutes - NEW LOOK Inventors - NEW LOOK
Objectives
History
- Explore historic engines/mechanisms that make things move.
- To design and make a mode of transport using a simple ‘stored energy’ (elastic band) mechanism.
Enquiry question
Why do vehicles move?
Outcomes
Children will:
- Know that to make a vehicle move, it needs a source of power.
- Identify different sources of power that make vehicles move.
- Design and make a vehicle that moves using the power from an elastic band.
Provided Resources
You Will Need
A selection of small world vehicles
Rubber bands; scissors; marker pens; rulers
Corrugated card
Duct tape
Old/blank CDs
Thin wooden skewers
Styrofoam/modelling clay
A range of ‘junk’ resources (e.g. plastic pots, straws)
Various types of fixing (e.g. tape, staples, paperclips, split pins, glue, string)
Paints and brushes
Weblinks
How to make a rubber band boat from livingonthecheap.com