Stage	Key Stage	Subjects	Title
Secondary	KS3	Science	BLOODHOUND Air Powered Dragsters

 

 

The aim of this activity is to make the teaching of speed a little more interesting.

There are a series of "tests" that students should become familiar with before being allowed to use these tests in experiments of their own design. Hopefully the results of these experiments will allow them to design and build a "dragster" that will race in a competition at the end of the sequence of lessons.

This activity was written by Gary Williams, National Coordinator, Institute of Physics Teachers Network.

 

 

 

Downloads:

Bloodhound_KS3_Dragsters (Word format 1.3Mb) - Teachers guide and tasks

Bloodhound_KS3_Dragsters_-_car_instructions (Powerpoint format, 5Mb) - build instructions with photographs

IOP_air_powered_car template (pdf format, 1.3Mb) - optional bodyshell template