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How did students approach the car modification challenge, and what innovative solutions did they come up with? very good, trialling and adapting. Observing how other groups were adapting and modifying

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What feedback have you received from students or parents about the learning in this kit? Kids were excited to be building something instead of just focussing on written work. Parents came into class to see the cars.

“the class was very engaged with the tasks. One area they struggled with was the pieces constantly falling off, which was slightly frustrating. Lots of testing, comparing and adapting. Lots of discussion within the groups which was very good for them”

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“Loved the videos and learning to support the concepts”

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How did students approach the car modification challenge, and what innovative solutions did they come up with? Nothing

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What feedback have you received from students or parents about the learning in this kit? Cool as!

“Kids were engaged making their cars but the learning behind it was very hard for students to grasp and understand. We also struggled to teach the concepts behind solar energy. How ever the kids absolutely loved making it and racing the cars.”

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How did students approach the car modification challenge, and what innovative solutions did they come up with? They approached it very positively even when it was not going as planned.

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What feedback have you received from students or parents about the learning in this kit? They wished that their cars worked and that they could've done the wiring part themselves without needing a teacher to help.

“The Solar Cars were very engaing for the students, however making the cars was quite hard for Year5/6 students. The instructions were not the easiest to follow and the wiring part was hard for them. Only 3 of our cars works after having to remake a couple when they did work. I would not recommend this for classes below Year 6 as it was too hard for my students.”

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How did students approach the car modification challenge, and what innovative solutions did they come up with? We did not get to that.

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What feedback have you received from students or parents about the learning in this kit? It was really fun but very challenging

“Fun idea and engaging however, the actual making of the solar cars was too difficult for our year 5&6 students”

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How did students approach the car modification challenge, and what innovative solutions did they come up with? Some students are busy exploring this at the moment.

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What feedback have you received from students or parents about the learning in this kit? Students loved the hands on learning. They were challenged at times by needing to make changes but this is all part of productive struggle.

“Excellent kit to support student thinking and creativity. Teaching related to following instructions and exploring science ideas and concepts.”

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How did students approach the car modification challenge, and what innovative solutions did they come up with? I feel like we could've modified the cars a bit more if the cars were a bit more durable. Main modifications were in shifting the weight around on the cars and we tried changing the placement of the solar panel. The most interesting modificatin some students wanted to try was putting two solar panels on one car. I would like to do a little teaching around cicuits (series and parallel) and see if they can figure out how to use two panels to power the car.

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What feedback have you received from students or parents about the learning in this kit? Positive feedback from the students. They really loved the hands-on nature of the activity and the excitement of building a car and then taking it outside and see it then work as planned.

“This was a great kit where the hands-on element of building the solar-powered cars created high levels of student engagement and interest in the learning involved. The challenge we had was that we experienced breakages during the car building. In particular, the small balsa wood pieces where the wheel axles would be threaded through. This impacted some students and we then had to pivot and combine groups to allow them to work together. I think as this was my first time doing this, I have learnt a lot that I would then apply if I get the opportunity to use this kit again in the future.”

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Posted 4 months ago

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How did students approach the car modification challenge, and what innovative solutions did they come up with? Students used trial and error mainly. They tried 2 solar panels, put graphite on the wheels. Used and made a propeller and tried various weights in different places on the car.

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What feedback have you received from students or parents about the learning in this kit? Loved it!

“The students were really enthusiastic about making their solar cars. Students that I would normally find difficult to engage in the classroom were very keen. I was really impressed with the lengths that students had taken to try and make their car different, and the time and effort spent to modify their car to make it faster/go further. One student even tried a propeller and decided it looked pretty cool but did nothing to enhance the speed. I wish that there were more packs in each box as my class had 30 students. It made it difficult to decide who would take the car home because they all wanted to.”

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Posted 5 months ago

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