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How did students approach the car modification challenge, and what innovative solutions did they come up with? It was difficult as first time for many of the students doing this

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What feedback have you received from students or parents about the learning in this kit? Students loved the final result. They now have a better understanding of how these things take time in building, redesign and modification

What kind of feedback did you receive from students regarding the overall unit, and how did it influence their learning experience? Same as above

“It is a fantastic hands-on learning activity. I found it very helpful, especially for students with conditions like ADHD.”

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Posted 21 hours ago

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How did students approach the car modification challenge, and what innovative solutions did they come up with? After investing significant time and effort into building their cars, many students found it difficult to make changes or experiment with different designs to improve performance. They were often reluctant to alter something they had worked hard to create, even when discussing how engineers test and refine prototypes. This highlighted the need for additional scaffolding around the engineering design process and the idea that testing, evaluating and improving are valuable parts of creating successful technologies.

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What feedback have you received from students or parents about the learning in this kit? This was an amazing learning experience for our students

What kind of feedback did you receive from students regarding the overall unit, and how did it influence their learning experience? This was an amazing learning experience for our students

“The Solar Cars 24 project was a highly engaging and motivating learning experience for our Year 10 Foundation students. With teacher support, students successfully built their own solar-powered cars and showed excellent perseverance when assembling the kits. Many students took great pride in seeing their cars work for the first time, and the race day was a particular highlight that generated excitement, teamwork and a real sense of achievement. Overall, the project was an excellent way to develop practical skills, problem-solving and resilience while making science enjoyable and relevant.”

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Posted 6 days ago

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How did students approach the car modification challenge, and what innovative solutions did they come up with? We didn’t get to it before the end of term

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What feedback have you received from students or parents about the learning in this kit? In our learner led conferences almost all of them named it as their favourite thing about the term and parents asked to see them.

What kind of feedback did you receive from students regarding the overall unit, and how did it influence their learning experience? That they loved it and wanted to do something similar next term.

“The solar cars hit the mark with 100% of my learners, even those who are harder to engage!”

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Posted 2 weeks ago

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How did students approach the car modification challenge, and what innovative solutions did they come up with? Lots of collaboration, trying out different ideas, everyone tried to improve their solar car.

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What feedback have you received from students or parents about the learning in this kit? The students loved the kit, and asked if they could do it again!

What kind of feedback did you receive from students regarding the overall unit, and how did it influence their learning experience? They enjoyed the kit immensely, loved trying to innovative and improve the speed of their cars.

“Huge engagement in the science and technology learning! The hands-on aspect was great for some of our learners, putting into practice what they had learned previously. I would recommend this kit!”

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Posted 1 month ago

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How did students approach the car modification challenge, and what innovative solutions did they come up with? They figured out they didn't need certain parts like the back spoiler as it weighed the car down and blocked the solar panel from working.

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What feedback have you received from students or parents about the learning in this kit? They loved feeling the success of when their car worked. They did get frustrated when the bits would fall off from the car or block the solar panels from working.

What kind of feedback did you receive from students regarding the overall unit, and how did it influence their learning experience? They found learning about power and energy very interesting.

“The children really enjoyed teh kit. They loved being able to race their cars.”

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Posted 3 months ago

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How did students approach the car modification challenge, and what innovative solutions did they come up with? Some students found modifying the car to be easy and they had planned to do so from the beginning. They would test it and realised it wouldn't work and came back to the drawing board. Other students just built the car as per the instructions and didn't modify it at all due to not being 100% sure.

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What feedback have you received from students or parents about the learning in this kit? The learning done in the kit allowed them to have a better understanding on what they did with their car affected how well their car would run. It allowed some to think really carefully as to how they would modify their car to win the speed race in particular.

What kind of feedback did you receive from students regarding the overall unit, and how did it influence their learning experience? The students enjoyed the unit as a whole. Plenty of them got frustrated or had problems during the building process but tried their best. They enjoyed getting the opportunity to race the cars against each other for speed and distance.

“Since we were doing this in Term 4 we had a shortened time line. It also didn't help I was away for some of the term so a reliever was conducting some of the kit for me. However, overall it was fairly successful. The students had fun and they learnt alot. They learnt alot about themselves and their problem solving skills and learnt to try push themselves through the challenges they faced when building the car. The learning at the start of the kit helped set them up for success when building their car. I would be keen to do this kit again but make sure it was in a different term and I would want more time to set up the foundations to help them when it comes to the modifying and building. Since there were several sessions that I missed the students weren't necessarily set up for success.”

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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? While none wanted to change the energy source they did trial and error to see if they could place it in various places. This added to the learning. Many tried to change the number of body parts on the car noting the force of drag.

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What feedback have you received from students or parents about the learning in this kit? This has been the best learning ever! I want to know more about powered cars. What does the future of transport look like? - these are just a few comments we heard over and over.

What kind of feedback did you receive from students regarding the overall unit, and how did it influence their learning experience? Feedback was ongoing especially if after instruction they still put the cog on and the car went backwards. This was the funniest part and where most of the learning came from.

“Fun, challenging and most of all educational. What an amazing resource that kept our students engaged throughout. I would highly recommend this resource.”

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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? Some of the children really thrived in this area and enjoyed changing and remaking. Others were challenged enough initially.

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What feedback have you received from students or parents about the learning in this kit? The children loved it. Parents thought it was a great project

What kind of feedback did you receive from students regarding the overall unit, and how did it influence their learning experience? The children absolutely loved it.

“What an exciting engaging resource. Everyone loved taking part in this. It was also a fun unit to work through with the children, prompting many interesting discussions and conversations. The only down side was I was supposed to be sent 3 kits-as I was teaching it to a whole syndicate on a rotation basis-but I only received one, and no response when requesting more. This meant the children ended up in much bigger groups which wasn’t ideal.”

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Posted 7 months ago

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