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Do you think your students can make a machine in a day to enable them to float around a classroom? 

 

We set this seemingly impossible challenge and provide your pupils with the materials to test and develop their ideas and then a second set of materials to create working hovercraft that they ride and race against each other.

 

The key learning intentions and engineering principles covered are:

 

• Working as a team, team management and collective decision making
• Practical application of knowledge learned
• Development of fabrication skills
• Pressure

• Area
• Friction

• Propulsion
• Design

• Prototyping 

 

A learning resources pack will be sent at the time of booking.


costs

 

Recommended for Keystage 4 and 5.  This project is run as a full day session.

 

The cost includes the attendance of 1WSC staff member with all the necessary tools and materials to undertake the project, though of course you can book as many WSC staff as your numbers require.

 


Team sizes : 4-6

Teams per WSC staff : 2-3

Price per WSC staff : £702