STEM Challenge Bottle Car featuring Newton’s 3rd Law
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It’s time for a STEM Activity with Newton’s Laws of Motion! Students will love this car “racing” challenge and the learning will amaze you! Your students will love seeing the balloon cars race each other or simply spin in circles!
This challenge is available in money-saving bundles!
What is the challenge?
- Students will use materials to design and build a balloon-powered car.
- The car must roll on a straight path and travel as much distance as possible before the balloon is exhausted.
- This challenge will demonstrate the third law of motion.
- Students work together to design wheels, axles, and the blowing mechanism of their cars.
- The tricky attachment of the axles and wheels will try their patience and create opportunities to improve their vehicles.
What is your prep?
You will need supplies in addition to this resource. This includes empty water bottles, balloons- of 8-9 inch diameter, straws- in 2 sizes, dowel sticks or wooden skewers, masking tape, pipe cleaners, rubber bands, round objects for wheels, cardboard pieces, and track for racing. (The track is optional.)
The package specifically includes:
- Cover
- Teacher background
- Materials and preparation page
- 6 pages of teacher directions
- Constraints list
- informational page about Newton’s Laws of Motion
- 4 pages of photographs
- Student lab sheet
- Scoring rubric
- Terms of Use page.
- All forms are editable!
- Student answer sheets are not included, but samples from student work are included in the teacher direction pages.
This challenge will need 2 class sessions to complete.
NOTE: This project is challenging! Upper elementary grades are best suited for this challenge.
This challenge works perfectly with others about Newton’s Laws of Motion!
All three Newton challenges are available in a money-saving bundle!
STEM Challenge Bundle featuring Newton’s Laws of Motion
NEWTON'S THIRD LAW
The simplified version of the third law is: For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. This is the version most students might be familiar with. The easiest way to show this law is with a device called a Newton's Cradle.
So How Does This Apply to Bottle Cars?
The students understood the 3rd law of motion after seeing a Newton’s Cradle device. We related this to the bottle car with a simple explanation. What is the action? The balloon expelling air. What is the reaction? The car moving.
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