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Design a Car Engineering Design Challenge | 1st Grade STEM Discoveries

Rev up your STEM classroom with the Design a Car STEM Challenge! Students will step into the shoes of engineers as they explore the evolution of cars, uncover the secrets of speed, and build their own dream vehicle! Using If I Built a Car as inspiration, learners will discover that problems can have multiple solutions, just like real-world engineering.

Students will use common materials to construct a working model of a car, mastering the art of building a wheel and axle that moves. They’ll experiment with speed, weight, and incline, gaining real-world engineering intuition in a fun and interactive way. This unit is part of our new 1st grade STEM Discoveries series!