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MTC Day 3

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Intro to MTC

INTRODUCTION:


The mousetrap car shows how energy can be transferred from one location to another. In this activity, you will design and build a mousetrap-powered car with specific guidelines according to ONE OF TWO competitions: Speed or Distance. You will also submit a Lab Write up which will be a typed paper along with an Engineering Design Process report (EDP).
This project is designed to give you the opportunity to tie together major Science topics: Motion, Forces, Newton’s Laws, Energy Transformation, and Simple Machines. Be sure to consider these principles when designing and building your mousetrap-powered car. In your lab write-up, you will be asked to explain how these factors influenced your design. You will also have to complete a data worksheet when you are testing your car.

Before you begin, read the guidelines and deadlines carefully and think about what type of car you would like to build. The first attempt at designing the car will probably not be the one you end up building. Allow yourself plenty of time to design and begin building the car. The deadlines will be set, we are now in a time where urgency is a push for success.

I encourage each of you to strive for excellence! Do not be discouraged if you need to make several modifications to your original design. The continuous process of refining a design is what science and engineering are all about! Following the EDP is key to your success! The more detail you add to your EDP report, the better your project!
Section 3 and Section 4

Section 3 - Identify Possible Solutions And Selecting Best Solution

Engineering Design Process (EDP)
The purpose of today is to use our research to help us design prototype models of our MTC. Your first designs will not be the best.

You will first complete the paper that was given to you to draw your three protoypes.
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Complete your design paper. Then, complete the data table for each design.

For each design, consider what is good and what is not so good about the design.

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Add an image of your solutions paper. Circle the design that your team voted on to be the BEST design.

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Why was that your best solution?

A successful explanation will have:
  • A topic sentences that says what you are about to describe/explain.
  • Several complete sentences that give the reader enough information (2-3 reasons) to understand your choice.

Finished with Day 3?

You should be actively building your MTC now!!!!