This is a fun and engaging cross-curricular engineering activity that teachers can bring into their classroom. Students learn about Newton’s 3 laws and build a mousetrap powered car which they can then race for a chance of victory and glory! A mousetrap powered car is a vehicle that is powered by the energy of a wound-up mouse trap’s spring. Students will design and build a machine that can transfer force and energy, then calculate the kinetic energy of the mousetrap race car. This activity encapsulates the fundamental physics of motion and kinematics in a fun and exciting way.

UBC Geering Up is dedicated to promoting science, engineering, math and technology to the children and youth of British Columbia through fun, innovative, and hands-on experiments and projects.

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