Project Playbook: Educator Edition
Mousetrap Car Kinematics: Mouse Trap Car
Lessons to teach Kinematics.

HIGH SCHOOL PHYSICS – EDUCATOR CURRICULUM
You will find a detailed series of lesson plans to guide students through discovering motion and constructing a working car powered by a mousetrap.
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Related Materials include:
- The Mouse Trap Car – Objectives
- Activity Overview
- Lesson Plans for Winding UP
- Winding Up/Student Walk Worksheet
- Galileo’s Inclined Plane Worksheet
- Galileo’s Falling Objects Worksheet
- Mousetrap Car Culminating Activity
- How a Lab Write-up Should Look
- Video Analysis Guide