Pbs Kids Design Squad: Top Builder: Rubber Band Tool

Hands-on challenge to design and build a paddle boat that moves across water using a rubber band as its power source. Provides full list of materials with ideas on how to design, build, test, and redesign it if necessary. Activity...

Take this challenge to design and build a rubber band-powered car and watch it go.

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?

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.

Build your own launchers to play carnival-style games using things like toilet paper rolls and rubber bands.

This challenge is to design and build a tool that can take a core sample from the center of a potato. Are you up to it?

This challenge is to design and build a sturdy emergency shelter that can fit one person and easy to build. Are you up to the challenge?

This challenge is to design and build a headphone system to hear a musical instrument (real or homemade) better. Can you do it?

Your job is to design and build a ping-pong carrier and send it down a zip line in 4 seconds or less. Are you up to the task?

This challenge is to design and build a cushion system that can safely land an egg dropped onto the floor from three feet up. Are you up to the challenge?