Electric Cars

Today we went to the D.T. Room. We began to make our electric cars.

Working in pairs or threes we had to select our materials, with on emphasis on keeping the cost down.

We talked about Health and Safety. We had to demonstrate :-

• safe cutting with the use of a bench hook
• safe use of a glue gun
• safe joining

Then we had to carefully assemble the chassis. We had to take into account axle alignment, strenght and how the car is actually going to move using the low voltage circuit.

There was lots of assembling and then disassembling as sometimes our first plan was not effective.

We were forced to think very hard indeed!!!!

NEVER MIND RACING THEM. LET'S GET THEM MOVING FIRST!

A fantastic day which gave the children a golden opportunity to develop a variety of important skills.