Rubber Band Powered Boat Design

Girl scouts ewni has put together a great instructional program for girl scout juniors to earn their paddle boat design challenge badge virtually.
Rubber band powered boat design. Electricity materials forces ks2. Make a fan boat. The videos below will cover all 5 steps for earning the badge. It has a very simple design.
You can make one too here you can see how it performs. We made a few because the kids wanted to all have their own favorite colors to play with and we needed to have some boat races of course. Primary science materials. Make a popsicle stick paddle boat that s powered with a rubber band.
Brainstorm ways to improve your design when you ve earned this badge you ll know how to build and test a paddle boat and understand buoyancy potential energy and kinetic energy. It shot down the 12 course in. This is a rubber band powered boat. Put a rubber band around the boat and place the paddle piece between the rubber band.
Design and build a rubber band powered paddle boat 3. Zippercraft is a 3d printed rubber band powered boat. Design engineering and technology electronics systems and control. 4 8 10 customer reviews.
You ll learn about different forces of energy and build your own rubber band powered paddle boat. The propeller shaft 00 34 is a paperclip and it is in a plastic assembly 00 57 taken from an old rubber band powered plane that slides over the end of the wooden stick 01 12 at the other end the. The more the rubber band is turned the more potential energy it has before placing in the water. Now let them go in your tub.
The rubber band propels the cardboard therefore advancing the boat through the water. Rubber band powered boat project. Rubber band powered 3d printed race boat. This video from davehax demonstrates how cutting and gluing together some lollipop or popsicle sticks can make a simple paddle boat structure.
I made it by using an old chocolate carton popsicle sticks a rubber band and cardboard. Analyze and share your results 5. You will need to twist going away from the boat or the boat moves backwards. Test your rubber band powered paddle boat 4.
Rubber band powered boat. Sand them with sanding paper if you want it to have an extra fine finish.