In our latest STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art, math) project students worked to design a roadway from multiple colors of tape along which a toy car could drive. What surface would give the car the best chance of movement? They then engineered how to attach magnets to little cars in a way that they could use other magnets to either attract or repel the cars. Which worked better for car motion, attract or repel? What effect did the tape have on the function of the magnet? Finally, they worked to move their magnet powered cars along the roadway structures they had created.
