Over the years, Engineers have been working on improving the key factors that determines the quality when manufacturing cars that are mostly used in racing contests. As the journey of these tests have not ended yet, it was agreed on some of the main factors that affects the performance of a race car. In this lesson, students will be those engineers that will get the chance to hold several tests and record their findings on a simple car model made from the LEGO Education robotics toolbox WeDo 2.0! 

Lesson Objectives

  1. Students will be able to describe the importance of Engineers role at car's manufacturing factories. 
  2. Students will be able to form a definition for the physical term Speed in relation to car's performance.
  3. Students will be able to hold a test to determine the impact of several elements in a car's performance and present it to the class. 

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Vocabulary 

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Lesson Plan

Pre lesson preparation:

In class lesson steps:

  1. Auto racing (also known as car racing, motor racing, or automobile racing) is a motorsport involving the racing of automobiles for competition .In auto racing, the racing setup or car setup is the set of adjustments made to the vehicle to optimize its behaviour (performance, handling, reliability, etc.). Adjustments can occur in suspensions, brakes, transmissions, engines, tires and other factors. 
  2.    Speed is the rate of motion, or the rate of change of position. It is expressed as distance moved (d) per unit of time(t). As in SI units, it's meters/second. 
  3. Acceleration is defined as the rate of change of the speed. It is thus a vector quantity with dimension length/time². In SI units, acceleration is measured in meters/second².