Build your own...

VEHICLE
Context
In Miss Townsend's Year 2 science class we have been learning about how a push or a
pull affects how an object moves or changes shape.

Design brief
Your task is to design and make a a vehicle, this vehicle can have anywhere from
four to eight wheels. You can bend, twist, cut, paste and create any vehicle out of the
recycled materials. Let your imagination run wild!

Limitations
The vehicle must be able to travel with a push one meter

Deliverables
You will hand in one vehicle, that can travel at least one meter
(with a push) & one drawn up design of the vehicle.

Essential Questions Materials

Are you going to be able to push Glue 1 meter ruler tissue tubes

Cardboard Recycled plastic textas

your vehicle?
coloured card bottles sticky tape
what are the other forces helping iPads
axles with wheels pop-sticks
your vehicle move? (made out of recycled Duplo
Does your car travel at least 1 wood) Bottle tops
masking tape straws
meter?
recycled containers pegs
How does this activity relate to
recycled cardboard recycled milk
the other physical science boxes cartons
activities? paint balloons
 Build your own Vehicle

RUBRIC

this shows that the

students have completed
the following:

created a vehicle that

can travel 1 meter or
more

videoed the
movement of the
vehicle with the use of
the iPads

Have a
completed final
product & design

Answerd the
key
questions