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PBS

Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Rubber Band Car

For Students 3rd - 8th
Take this challenge to design and build a rubber band-powered car and watch it go.
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Rubber Bands for Energy

For Students 3rd - 5th
If you've ever been shot with a rubber band then you know it has energy in it, enough energy to smack you in the arm and cause a sting. How can the energy of a rubber band be put to work? In this experiment you will find out how the...
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Rubber Band Elasticity and Temperature

For Students 9th - 10th
Many materials expand when heated and contract when cooled. What do you think will happen to the elasticity (stretchiness) of a rubber band when it is heated or cooled to various temperatures?
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Build a Rubber Band Paddle Boat

For Students 3rd - 5th
Build your own bathtub or pool toy from simple craft materials in this fun activity. You will build a rubber-band-powered boat that can zip across the surface of the water after you wind up the rubber band.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: The Linear Force Relation for a Rubber Band

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students' will use a force sensor and a motion detector to study the relationship between the force applied to a rubber band and the distance to which it stretches. They will then model force versus strech data with a...
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PBS

Pbs Kids: Design Squad Challenge: Rubber Band Car [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 8th
Hands-on challenge to build a car using a rubber band and only two wheels that can go really fast and far. Provides full list of materials with ideas on how to design, build, and test and redesign. Activity focuses on the engineering...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Jam Jam Jam With a Rubber Band Band

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this very detailed lesson plan, learners explore and create a stringed instrument that demonstrates their understanding of sound waves and how energy is transferred. Multiple videos are included showing this lesson in action in a...
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Science is Fun

Science Is Fun: Rubber Bands and Heat

For Students 4th - 8th
An experiment to investigate the thermal properties of rubber by studying its behavior in different scenarios. A discussion of how entropy explains what is observed is provided.
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Other

National Museum of Women in the Arts: How to Make a Rubber Band Journal

For Students 3rd - 8th
These simple journal directions open the door for creating some unique and innovative handcrafted books. All it requires is a stick, rubber bands, hole punch, and paper.
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Bill Nye

Bill Nye: Burn Rubber

For Students 9th - 10th
This tutorial from Bill Nye explains how to perform a simple experiment with a rubber band. The experiment demonstrates how friction can dissipate energy as heat.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: The Car With a Lot of Potential

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Working in teams, students perform quantitative observational experiments on the motion of LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT robotic vehicles powered by the stored potential energy of rubber bands. Students understand that through the manipulation of...
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PBS

Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build

For Students 3rd - 8th
Do you like to build and create new things? Check out this collection of 48 different engineering activities providing opportunities for creative building using things around the house. These include activities like spinning, rubber band...
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PBS

Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Top Builder Challenge

For Students 3rd - 8th
Students were challenged to create something powered by rubber bands. Check out the winners and runner ups. Can you recreate theirs or create one of your own?
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Bill Nye

Bill Nye: Burn Rubber

For Students 1st - 5th
Try this at-home science experiment to learn what happens when you repeatedly stretch a rubber band.
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PBS

Pbs Kids: Design Squad Challenge: Roving on the Moon (Pdf) [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 8th
Hands-on challenge to build a rubber band-powered cardboard car (rover) that can scramble across the room. Provides full list of materials with ideas on how to build, test, evaluate, and redesign the car if necessary. Activity focuses on...
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Bomb's Away! A Ping Pong Catapult

For Students 3rd - 8th
With this project you'll send ping pong balls flying through the air with a rubber-band powered catapult. This catapult makes it easy to reproduce the launch angle, and to measure the amount of force applied to the projectile. Armed with...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Investigating Sounds: Identifying Vibration, Pitch, and Volume

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this investigation, students will observe and experiment with how sounds are made. They will use various elementary music instruments as well as tuning forks, combs, rubber bands, books, bottles, etc. They will collect data on how...
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PBS

Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Roving on the Moon

For Students 3rd - 8th
Your challenge is to design and build a rubber band-powered car that can crawl across the floor like a moon rover travels across the moon. Are you up to the challenge?
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PBS

Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Paddle Power

For Students 3rd - 8th
Can you build a rubber band-powered, paddle boat that paddles across the water? Give this a try and have a paddle race with a friend.
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PBS

Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Indoor Slingshot

For Students 3rd - 8th
Build your own launchers to play carnival-style games using things like toilet paper rolls and rubber bands.
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PBS

Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Robo Wheel

For Students K - 1st
Make your own Robo Wheel to race or do freestyle tricks using simple household items like paper bowls, string, and rubber bands.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: What's Hiding in the Air?

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students develop an understanding of the effects of invisible air pollutants with a rubber band and hanger air test and a bean plant experiment. They also learn about methods of reducing invisible air pollutants.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Strum Along

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Music and sound are two different concepts that share much in common. Determining the difference between the two can sometimes be difficult due to the subjective nature of deciding what is or is not music. The goal of this activity is to...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Super Slinger Engineering Challenge

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students are challenged to design, build and test small-scale launchers while they learn and follow the steps of the engineering design process. For the challenge, the "slingers" must be able to aim and launch Ping-Pong balls 20 feet...

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