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Racing cars

Topics Reception
This unit is part of Superheroes Superhero Vehicles

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Objectives

Early learning goals

  • Count reliably with numbers from 1 to 20.
  • Use everyday language to talk about size, position, distance, time to compare quantities and objects and to solve problems.
  • Explore characteristics of everyday objects and shapes and use mathematical language to describe them.
  • Safely use and explore a variety of materials, tools and techniques, experimenting with colour, design, texture, form and function.

Lesson Planning

Check out the world’s top super-fast racing cars and time yourself against the clock to see how your wheels compare! Create your own car and road scenes as you race around different shaped tracks. Don’t forget to check in at the pit stop - who can change a tyre the fastest?

Children will:

  • Time laps using stopwatches and record their personal best.
  • Create role-play and small world tracks and racing cars using a range of techniques and materials.
  • Design the world’s fastest car and describe it in terms of shape, form and function.

Provided Resources

  • Lap time sheet
  • How to make cars out of cardboard tubes
  • Activity set up ideas
  • Car designs
  • Pit stop time cards

You Will Need

  • Things that go! book
  • Stopwatches
  • Costumes - helmets, gloves, goggles
  • Bikes/scooters
  • Items for car building and track making - cardboard tubes, split pins, sand timers, builders tray, shaving foam and kebab sticks
  • Toy cars and car magazines
  • White labels
  • Clipboards
  • Lap tops
  • Large wooden blocks and cardboard boxes
  • Hoops or tyres
  • Tools
  • Sponges and buckets

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