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How did students approach the car modification challenge, and what innovative solutions did they come up with? Some students decided to experiment with the placing of and using different weights on their car. One student even put the weight in a compartment that he'd made.

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What feedback have you received from students or parents about the learning in this kit? I have a student that's asked his parents to buy extra parts for his car so that he can modify his car further.

“Our students loved making their own cars and learning about the different types of power and forces. I would definitely recommend this activity to help students learn in a meaningful and engaging way.”

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How did students approach the car modification challenge, and what innovative solutions did they come up with? Students used multiple solar panels and tried changing the placement of the solar panel

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What feedback have you received from students or parents about the learning in this kit? Students were excited to take their cars home and mentioned that they were going to do even more work on their car.

“The students were fully engaged with building and remodifying their solar cars. We learnt about different forces and energy and included some practical maths equations too. Many skills were taught and it created a fantastic relateable experience.”

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How did students approach the car modification challenge, and what innovative solutions did they come up with? A mixed bag of results but most groups who made their solar cars lighter by removing some of the frame parts were more successful

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What feedback have you received from students or parents about the learning in this kit? They loved it! Parents are students are so engage when there is real hands on learning happening in the classroom.

“Students loved learning about types of energy and looking more closely into solar energy. Making and racing their solar cars was a highlight and a fabulous way to end off our energy module. Students enjoyed the design process and individualising their race cars.”

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How did students approach the car modification challenge, and what innovative solutions did they come up with? They joined solar panels together, and reduced the weight of the car by removing excess piecess.

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What feedback have you received from students or parents about the learning in this kit? That is was great fun!

“The building and testing of the solar cars was very successful in my class. It was tricky enough to require perseverance, but not too hard that all groups succeeded. We did the balloon cars too, and that required more modification and problem solving than we first thought. Students had their first car built within a minute and wete on the start line thinking they were done. An hour later they were finally getting cars that they could time over the measured meter. It was a very engaging lesson!”

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How did students approach the car modification challenge, and what innovative solutions did they come up with? They tilted the solar panels to try to get more sunlight to hit. Worked on centre of mass and getting the wheels to spin more freely.

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What feedback have you received from students or parents about the learning in this kit? They thought it was fantastic.

“This kit was amazing. Fit really well with our teachnology/science unit inventions. The children were really engaged in making the cars and trouble shooting how they could fix problems.”

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How did students approach the car modification challenge, and what innovative solutions did they come up with? It provide them to explore and be creative.

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What feedback have you received from students or parents about the learning in this kit? It encouraged them to build and experiment at home.

“The kids enjoyed building the cars and learnt so many concepts from this cool kit!”

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How did students approach the car modification challenge, and what innovative solutions did they come up with? We had some very "interesting" modifications take place, although not sure they were overly successful! Cars were stripped right back to bare minimum, cars were joined together to make limos, one car ended up with 3 solar panels.

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What feedback have you received from students or parents about the learning in this kit? Kids really enjoyed it, was challenging but fun. Parents were amazed that all of the equipment was provided for free - what a great thing!

“What a fabulous experience for our tamariki. They had a great time following the instructions, watching the helpful video hints and testing out their cars. There was great collaboration, discussions and problem solving to be had. Naturally there was lots of tweaking, retrialling and just a few adaptations along the way. The processes involved and the incidential learning along the way was phenomenial. So nice to have such hands on, practical and fun learning right at our fingertips.”

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What feedback have you received from students or parents about the learning in this kit? The children had fun while learning about solar energy.

“Our solar cars experience this term has been a great learning experience for the children. When building the cars we had to manage being in. The learning put, solving problems, team work, having success, having difficulties, sharing etc. we had a wonderful time learning about them and how they work. We followed this by waiting and waiting for a sunny day to race them.”

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