Rubber Band Powered Lego Car

You will need some specialized bricks for this build such as bricks with holes in them thin rod type axles and separate wheel rims and tires.

Rubber band powered lego car.

Building this car is a great engineering project that demonstrates the power of potential and kinetic energy. Although i had initially thought that i needed to choose a book specifically about stem i realized any book provides the same kind of opportunity for learning including our beginner batman book collection. Specifically it stores elastic potential energy. This month we were invited to participate in a storybook stem challenge series.

This rubber band powered car is an awesome engineering activity for your next stem project time. Plus it s even more fun if you can make a car go without just pushing it or by adding an expensive motor. Background when you stretch a rubber band it stores potential energy. Kids love building things that move.

My crazy action contraption. There are lots of creative rubber band car ideas but you definitely need a rubber band and a way to wind it up. This rubber band powered lego car will zoom across the floor for 20 feet or more. Find out in this project where you ll build a rubber band powered car.

It would be fun to build these with a lego club or stem class and see whose car travels the farthest. These come in lego technic sets or you can buy them separately from a lego store or online. Rubber band car duration. Build batman s vehicle with this cool lego rubber band car for a book inspired stem project.

You will need 2 1x10 bricks with. The title is self explanatory feel free to copy this emoji.