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| The Salford Super Buggy
This enjoyable activity is aimed at Years 5 to 9 and takes approximately 2 - 2½ hours.
Starting with a kit of parts, students have the opportunity to build a Salford Buggy using simple tools.
 Once built and switched on, the buggy moves under battery energy. Pupils have the opportunity to evaluate their model and make improvements.
Building the buggy takes approximately 1 hour.
Once the buggy has been tested, the students are introduced to simple control technology. They adapt their electrical circuit by using a switch to turn the motor on and off and add an LED and buzzer whose actions are controlled by another two-way switch. Adapting the circuit and adding the switches takes approximately 1 hour.
Students are encouraged to draw their own wing design.
The session finishes with a competition to find the fastest buggy and opportunity to measure the speed of the winner.
The Salford Super Buggy addresses QCA Units Sc 2E, 4E, 4F: Design and Technology
• Try out tools and techniques
• Design and make images and artefacts
• Review what they and others have done
• Identify what they might change in future work
• Learn about colour and pattern, shape and space
• Work in a team
• Follow a plan
• Assemble and combine components
• Identify ways they could improve their product
• Carry out appropriate tests before making any improvements
• Recognise that the quality of a product depends on how well it is made and how well it meets its intended purpose
• How mechanisms can be used to make things move in different ways
• How electrical circuits can be used to achieve results that work
• Recognise that complex systems can be broken down into sub-systems
• Know about electrical control systems and how different sub-systems can be interconnected to achieve a particular function
• Test how well their product works and evaluated it
Science
• Cells (batteries) give electrical energy
• Conductors carry electricity, metals are conductors and non-metals are insulators
• Electricity flows in a particular direction and that decides which way an electric motor turns
• Friction tries to prevent objects moving, or slows down a moving object
• Measuring distance travelled and time taken allows speed to be calculated
• A switch is a gap in a circuit
• Switches are a simple way of controlling electrical components
• An LED and buzzer work only when only when the direction of current flow is correct
• Batteries give more energetic electricity as the number of cells increases
For further information or to book a session for your school, please contact:
Marie Roberts Tel: 0161 295 6374 Fax: 0161 295 2655
Email: mrobertssalford@aol.com
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