Lesson 4: Mechanical toy car kit: Designing

Assessment quiz and Knowledge catcher for use at the start and/or end of the unit to assess pupil progress.

Building a car chassis while exploring the history of car innovations and understanding how mechanisms like wheels and inclined planes enable movement.

Building a sustainable slingshot car prototype, focusing on choosing eco-friendly materials, making the chassis, conducting distance trials and creating an exploded diagram of the wheels and axles.