How fast should your buggy be?
The big task is for children to design and make a controllable, battery-powered toy vehicle using card, wood, found materials and a variety of mechanical and electrical components.
These are reports on activities taken by schools around the country. You can download the activities as acrobat files from the resources section
Doing the unit myself was the first step (December 14, 2007)
Alison Trueman works at primary school in the north west of England. She had very little experience of technical designing and making, so she did the unit herself.