SOLAR CAR
 Include:
 Multimeter, tape, alligator wires, measuring tape, solar
race car kit
 Week of 10/11 and Week of 10/18
How do you build a solar car?
What materials do you need?
How is a solar car related to
the sun’s energy?
Project Journal – Week 1
Day 1 – Exploration
We started reading about solar cars, and
experimenting with our materials. We read
about how solar energy works, and decided
how we would measure the distance of our
solar car.
We learned that a solar panel soaks up all of the suns energy. By
connecting two alligator wires to the solar panel we could transfer the
energy. We connected the other end of the alligator wires to a special wheel
connected to gears that moved all the other ones.
Project Journal – Week 2
Day 2 – testing
When finishing our solar car we decided to test its speed. We went
outside and placed two pieces of measuring tape, ten feet away from
each other. Then we timed how much time it took for our solar car to
travel from one piece of tape to another. Its fastest speed was 1.80
feet/second. We believe that this was an incredibly fast speed for a hand
made solar race car.
A quick look at what the finished
product was…
A quick look at how our project
worked