Today was spent making, testing and planning how to make the moving car with the electrical circuit for out Design & Technology activity of the day. We worked as a group to create the circuit and make the car move around the room.

We began with our starting point of using a motor circuit and a can with an elastic band to make the card base move.  This involved experimenting with the positioning of all the components, different battery powers and different materials before eventually completing the car. We were all happy with how the car was made, we agreed the design and making of the car wasn’t too complicated for our year 5 group to make themselves. I wrote an instruction sheet for how to make the car with steps to take for attaching the can and elastic band, creating the circuit and adding two back wheels, we will use these instructions to hand out to each group of children on our school day.

We also plan to take our practice car into school on the school day in order to show the children how it will all work and show them what their car base will look like.