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Go to the following site and type in "transportation" "design" A number of curricular ideas come up http://www.engineeringpathway.com/ep/k12/search/search_k12.jhtml http://teachengineering.org/search.php

Boat and car activities http://pbskids.org/designsquad/projects/index.html

The fast and the curious (Car design) [|http://www.] Harold Terry I went thru the following activity: American Exploration: Engineering – Cars etc: Rubber Band Car This was a good engineering activity for my 120 6th grade Science students. This project was used as a two day activity. Day one, we discussed engineering, and graphing. Day two, the students designed their cars, and graphed their speed and distance. The parts needed for this project were inexpensive. The car design was such that after each class built their cars, I could take apart each of the cars and reuse the same parts for my next classes. Students found several challenges to their project. 1.  Wobbly wheels 2.  Putty not sticking to the disks 3.  Rubber band not staying on the axel catch To give the students an extra challenge they were given several different sizes of rubber bands as a variable. Students also brainstormed other variables that they could change on their cars. Students discussed straws instead of wooden skewers. Students discussed rubber band length, and thickness Students discussed different types of cardboard. Students discussed using different lengths of the wooden skewers. Students discussed using different lengths of the cardboard. Students discussed using different thicknesses of the cardboard. thesolutionsite.com/lesson/26803/overview.htm