How can we build a battery and motor car for sixth grade students?
This is the small, model type cars.
Battery and Motor Car
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donzhere94
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- Occupation: Student: 6th Grade
- Project Question: How to make a car which is uses battery power and a motor?
- Project Due Date: February 22, 2010
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Re: Battery and Motor Car
Hi,
Here is an article on how to build an electric scooter car. It looks a little complicated for a sixth grade student to build without adult help, and I cannot vouch for how well the design works.
http://www.docstoc.com/docs/1677679/How ... ectric-Car
Here are instructions for a toy model car:
http://www.ehow.com/how_4910601_build-t ... c-car.html
This site has some general ideas but no plans:
http://www.instructables.com/answers/ca ... ctric-mot/
This site is more focused on building radio controlled cars, particularly from kits:
http://www.rccartips.com/
Here is a very rich site of science fair project idea pages on cars, with projects suited for different school grades. Scroll down the page to find an idea which interests you , then click on the red letters to access details:
http://www.juliantrubin.com/fairproject ... g/car.html
You may be interested in this document on designing solar toy cars:
http://www.nrel.gov/docs/gen/fy01/30828.pdf
I hope these resources get you thinking. This sounds like an interesting engineering project!!
Have fun,
Barrett L. Tomlinson
Here is an article on how to build an electric scooter car. It looks a little complicated for a sixth grade student to build without adult help, and I cannot vouch for how well the design works.
http://www.docstoc.com/docs/1677679/How ... ectric-Car
Here are instructions for a toy model car:
http://www.ehow.com/how_4910601_build-t ... c-car.html
This site has some general ideas but no plans:
http://www.instructables.com/answers/ca ... ctric-mot/
This site is more focused on building radio controlled cars, particularly from kits:
http://www.rccartips.com/
Here is a very rich site of science fair project idea pages on cars, with projects suited for different school grades. Scroll down the page to find an idea which interests you , then click on the red letters to access details:
http://www.juliantrubin.com/fairproject ... g/car.html
You may be interested in this document on designing solar toy cars:
http://www.nrel.gov/docs/gen/fy01/30828.pdf
I hope these resources get you thinking. This sounds like an interesting engineering project!!
Have fun,
Barrett L. Tomlinson

