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TTS Balloon Buggy Class Kit
https://www.tts-group.co.uk/tts-balloon-buggy-class-kit/1017001.html Product Code: TE10020Product Actions
Product Information
Overview
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1 pack mountboard, 300 thick card wheels, 40 wooden dowels, 100 balloons, 9m water hose, 200 straws, 300 assorted pom poms, 560 wiggly eyes
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Suitable for age 5 years and up
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Age Range
TTS Developed
STEM
Helping to Support Teaching and Learning
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Sufficient Materials
Includes enough material for 60 pupils, ensuring every child can participate fully in the activity.
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Supporting Literature
Scroll down for a downloadable lesson plan, PowerPoint, pupil worksheet, and ‘how to’ blog, aiding teachers to deliver effective lessons.
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Key Stage 2 Focus
Ideal for key stage two pupils, aligning with curriculum aims to teach forces and motion through practical activities.
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Hands-On Learning
Encourages hands-on learning by allowing children to build, test, and optimise their own balloon buggies.
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Teaching Forces
Supports teaching forces by helping children understand air resistance and friction through interactive experiments.
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TTS Balloon Buggy Class Kit
A STEM kit for 60 pupils to make, test, and improve balloon buggies using their science and DT skills.
Overview
Investigate forces and motion that make things move, understand mechanical systems in products, and compare the average speed of buggies.
This balloon making kit helps children understand forces and motion through hands-on activities. They will mark and cut a base, attach straws as bearings, fit axles and wheels, and attach a hose and balloon. When the balloon is inflated, the buggy zooms across the room, demonstrating forces that make things begin to move, get faster or slow down.
Children can add passengers, decorate their buggies, and optimise performance by reducing friction. They can also calculate and compare the average speed of their buggies.
The kit includes a lesson plan, PowerPoint, pupil worksheet, and a blog. Created by mechanical engineer Caroline Alliston, it supports classroom science experiments and STEM challenges for up to 60 children.
Supports the National Curriculum
Science, Year 5, Forces
Identify the effects of air resistance, water resistance and friction, that act between moving surfaces.
Product Information
Overview
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1 pack mountboard, 300 thick card wheels, 40 wooden dowels, 100 balloons, 9m water hose, 200 straws, 300 assorted pom poms, 560 wiggly eyes
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Suitable for age 5 years and up
Product Includes
Age Range
TTS Developed
STEM