Student handout
Design and build your own vacuum cleaner, hair dryer or toy car
Task preferences!
Credit: panbems
Student:
Today you are working as designers/engineers. Your group (4-5 students in each group) can
choose to design and build either a vacuum cleaner, a toy car or a hair dryer. You may
inquire about them to find out how they work. Based on that or in your inferences, you are
expected to make a plan of your design (with a drawing) and describe different components
in it. You are also expected to actually build your designed artifact, test it out, and maybe
refine it. Finally, you will present your design and actual artifact to your classmates in 5
minutes.
Task choices (Choose only one)
Task V: Making a simple vacuum cleaner.
Task C: Making a toy car.
Task H: Making a simple hair dryer.
Materials needed
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Pencil and paper for each participant
Actual materials that are necessary to carry our the activity can also be provided
to participants and they can carry out these tasks:
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Small motors 1,5-3V,
Batteries 4,5V or 3x1,5 V,
The mascil project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological
development and demonstration under grant agreement no 320 693
CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 mascil 2015
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3 x AA Battery Box,
Solid Core Wire,
Solid Core Wire resistance,
Plastic bottles from 0,5l-2l and plastic bottle lids,
Paper fasteners,
Paper clips,
Wire strippers,
Pieces of card board 10x10 cm,
Debris from a hole puncher,
Gluepistol,
CDs,
think wood sticks or Lollipop sticks
You can use any other materials that you think needed
The mascil project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological
development and demonstration under grant agreement no 320 693
CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 mascil 2015