Gear driven vehicles

  

Gear Driven Toys, 8th grade Applications of Technology

 

As the school year winds down we focus on using the knowledge we have gained in measuring skills, product advertising and how a vehicle uses torque to move to complete our final project. The gear driven vehicle project is created by the SAE “Society of Automotive Engineers” to allow students to use gears, wheels and a small motor to create a vehicle which will do one of the following items:

Goes a distance of 3 meters in 3 seconds on a flat surface

Goes a distance of 1 meter in 2 seconds on a 15 degree incline

Goes a distance of 1 meter with no time restriction on a 30 degree incline

Over the next four weeks each “toy company” will experiment with finding the correct gear combination for one of the three goals stated above, create a cardboard prototype for the exterior of the vehicle, complete a written proposal for Mobility Toys Inc. (a fictional toy company) and design a stage with decoration and any exciting features (lights. music, fog machine” to introduce their new toy.

Each days companies will also keep a design log of what the group worked on and draw the combination of gears used for the day as well as and exterior design ideas.

This activity is due for presentation on June 9th and 10th.

Below is a link to the program which includes an overview of the activity, lesson plans, material used in class and a video on assembling the toy.

 

https://awim.sae.org/curriculum/mtc/

 

The video below displays how gears work together. This video is also created by

A World in Motion