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How did students approach the car modification challenge, and what innovative solutions did they come up with? We only got up to design - they had some amazing ideas though!

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What feedback have you received from students or parents about the learning in this kit? The students enjoyed the building the most.

“Students enjoyed learning about the basics of pyshics and how solar power/panels work. They loved the hands on build, although some of it was a bit tight and fiddly. Unforetunwly we didn't have sun on our side so we had some very interesting conversations around solar power in a larger context and what happens when it is raining and over cast. Great group plans for modifications, unfortunately we didn't have time to get to executing it. A really well rounded project. My only complaint is that there was perhaps toooo much material to readwatch in the lead up.”

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Posted 7 months ago

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How did students approach the car modification challenge, and what innovative solutions did they come up with? They used batteries

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What feedback have you received from students or parents about the learning in this kit? Students lived to share this experience with their siblings

“These cars were amazing. The kids were totally engaged in the learning”

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Posted 7 months ago

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How did students approach the car modification challenge, and what innovative solutions did they come up with? We did not leave enough time to complete this part of the kit, but we have saved everything and will be returning to it.

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What feedback have you received from students or parents about the learning in this kit? The kids took their learning home and had some great conversations with the families. One of our parents commented that they had not seen their boy this excited about learning in a while.

“This is such a great kit. The kids in our hub loved the learning, especially the boys. Great writing from the boys after the kit too.”

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Posted 7 months ago

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How did students approach the car modification challenge, and what innovative solutions did they come up with? We had lots of very creative modifications. Students thrived off the challenge presented

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What feedback have you received from students or parents about the learning in this kit? The students absolutely loved creating the cars, testing and redesigning. Problem shooting to solve issues that presented themselves and working collaboratively.

“This was an amazing kit, all students were highly engaged and the excitement levels in the class were insane! Lots of learning while having huge amounts of fun, thank you so much for the outstanding resources!”

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Posted 8 months ago

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How did students approach the car modification challenge, and what innovative solutions did they come up with? with lots of ideas and experimentation. This extension really needs more set up for the teacher side of planning

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What feedback have you received from students or parents about the learning in this kit? loved it and could work on this at home

“Solar cars are a brilliant activity that can be used up to Year 10 for physics and general science. It supports theoretical teaching and creates a hands-on opportunity to understand and extend ideas.”

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Posted 8 months ago

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How did students approach the car modification challenge, and what innovative solutions did they come up with? I showed them the 'control' car i had made and there seemed to be 2 groups - the follow the rules and make it like the instructions group, and the ohhh how can I change that group.

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What feedback have you received from students or parents about the learning in this kit? The children really enjoyed the process and were generally fully engaged. Several parents had mentioned that their children had been raving about this project.

“I really enjoyed this kit. I really appreciated the huge range of resources available to preload the children with and to further my own learning and understanding. The cars were so much fun. 99% of children were fully engaged and invested in making their cars the very best they could be, and I believe really saw the benefits of planning, testing and trying again. Highly recommended!”

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Posted 8 months ago

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How did students approach the car modification challenge, and what innovative solutions did they come up with? I left this lesson for our release teacher- sorry cant answer this.

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What feedback have you received from students or parents about the learning in this kit? Just that they thoroughly enjoyed this kit.

“Highly engaging topic for our Year 7/8 students. They loved this and all worked so well and on task. This is something they still use now. Love how the learning was interwoven into hands-on learning. Only suggestion would be to provide more kits.”

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Posted 8 months ago

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How did students approach the car modification challenge, and what innovative solutions did they come up with? They loved doing the car modification! Some added weights, others took apart part of their cars. They would tell me it wasn't needed anyway for the car to work!

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What feedback have you received from students or parents about the learning in this kit? Great kit, I am hoping it will be back again next year!!

“The tamariki had great fun learning about the different power sources, and how the cars worked. The loved the hands on element where they got to make the balloon cars first. Some tamariki got a little disheartened when these didn't work as well as others, but this enabled us to to talk about resilence and about not giving up. It was great to see that those that were struggling were supported by other students! When they got to build the solar cars, I have never seen them so excited to get outside and try them out! The only problem we had was the weather!. The second race was even better with all the alterations.”

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Posted 8 months ago

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