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Solar Cars 24 Reviews

4.6 Rating 62 Reviews
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Did you find the lessons on solar energy useful in improving the students understanding and interest in renewable energy?
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How did students approach the car modification challenge, and what innovative solutions did they come up with? Some struggled so did amazing using a touch was kne idea
How did the test-modify-repeat cycle impact students' understanding of the engineering design process?
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What feedback have you received from students or parents about the learning in this kit? Can we do again next year
My students loved these the racing the challenges the building and designing
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Posted 2 weeks ago
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Did you find the lessons on solar energy useful in improving the students understanding and interest in renewable energy?
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How did students approach the car modification challenge, and what innovative solutions did they come up with? It was very challenging for some of my students, but they were able to help each other out.
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What feedback have you received from students or parents about the learning in this kit? Parents commented that their child came home talking about the kit
This is absolutely an amazing kit, the students really enjoyed doing this kit
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Posted 2 weeks ago
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Did you find the lessons on solar energy useful in improving the students understanding and interest in renewable energy?
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How did students approach the car modification challenge, and what innovative solutions did they come up with? We only had a few modifications as not everyone got to that part and our group of 38 Y6 learners had to work in pairs to ensure everyone had a car
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What feedback have you received from students or parents about the learning in this kit? Everyone loved the involvement in building their cars and then the race challenge at the end.
We used the Solar powered cars to link in with our learning about renewable and non-renewable energy units we did through WP. This was great as my learners already had the background regarding how solar energy worked and how it was created. We focused on the wiring and why the heatshrinkwrapping was necessary when connecting wires. We extended our learning about how the gears work and how they make wheels rotate. We found it interesting having all cars wired red to red and black to black yet one car only moved in rotation and another in reverse.
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Posted 2 weeks ago
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Did you find the lessons on solar energy useful in improving the students understanding and interest in renewable energy?
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How did students approach the car modification challenge, and what innovative solutions did they come up with? Moving the solar panel to tilt towards the sun
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What feedback have you received from students or parents about the learning in this kit? Students loved this kit
What an amazing kit. Students were focused throughout and loved the hands on making aspect.
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Posted 2 weeks ago
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Did you find the lessons on solar energy useful in improving the students understanding and interest in renewable energy?
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How did students approach the car modification challenge, and what innovative solutions did they come up with? They were good at using whatever we had in the class to fix their cars - tape, bluetak, glue
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What feedback have you received from students or parents about the learning in this kit? Kids loved the change in our learning. We followed up with a MOTAT visit
great kit with awesome resources to teach all of the concepts. A bit fiddly for my age - year 4 and 5 but some did a marvellous job and kept theirs together. Others lost bits (after all the responsibility chats) and were too rough with them and ended up with broken parts.
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Posted 3 weeks ago
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Did you find the lessons on solar energy useful in improving the students understanding and interest in renewable energy?
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How did students approach the car modification challenge, and what innovative solutions did they come up with? I was impressed with some students that took risks with something they weren't really confident with.
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What feedback have you received from students or parents about the learning in this kit? Students were completely engaged and excited with this kit.
I think this was the best kit yet although all the kits that I have used are pretty amazing. This kit was a the most hands on for the students. There was a lot of skills being learned and it really helped them develop resilience. Students did so well following the instructions and assembling the cars themselves with very little help from me. They supported each other.
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Posted 3 weeks ago
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Did you find the lessons on solar energy useful in improving the students understanding and interest in renewable energy?
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How did students approach the car modification challenge, and what innovative solutions did they come up with? Smoothing wheels, reducing weight and drag.
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What feedback have you received from students or parents about the learning in this kit? That they really enjoyed it.
These cars were great. So much learning and very engaging for the children. The process leading from introduction, through to building, and culminating in racing is great.
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Posted 3 weeks ago
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Did you find the lessons on solar energy useful in improving the students understanding and interest in renewable energy?
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How did students approach the car modification challenge, and what innovative solutions did they come up with? .
How did the test-modify-repeat cycle impact students' understanding of the engineering design process?
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What feedback have you received from students or parents about the learning in this kit? Students want more kits to try out.
This was a fabulous and interactive kit set. Students were very engaged with the learning, and the lesson plan was easy to follow with the helpful videos. Students thoroughly enjoyed this set.
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Posted 4 weeks ago