In this lesson students are provided with a remote controlled electric car and must perform tests to calculate it's range by making it do work. It is a group based activity that requires students to apply their knowledge of forces, work and energy.
It fudges over a lot of issues like friction and the efficiency of the electric motor under different loads but it still provided an interesting challenge for my group and the most able students are likely to pick up on and discuss these issues in the process..
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A ready made activity to allow investigations in a whole range of dynamics and associated Physics within the electric car context. It refers to easysense, software from Data Harvest so there are opportunities to use data logging in this session. It's very open ended but the student task powerpoints provide good direction and questions that will stretch students of all abilities. The aim is to produce a poster meeting various criteria but you could choose to make them produce powerpoints or similar. I think this is a challenging, relevant and well structured project that will involve theory, practical, group work and presentation/recording skills.
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