The TeacherGeek Electric Racer is everything you need to drive a student's interest.

Bring the excitement and intrigue of electric cars into your classroom. This activity provides you with plenty of materials and instructions to design, construct and evolve a unique battery-powered car. This activity introduces true STEM engineering as students use Science, Technology, Engineering and Math processes to develop their design solutions. In addition, the components of this activity are designed to be used with recycled materials such as wood, metal and plastic.

• Utilize the design and engineering process
• Encourage creativity, problem solving, and critical thinking
• Learn about electric power
• Innovate (Build your own unique car)

When working on this activity, start with the Build Guide.

     Build Guide     

• Basic Racer Build Guide: PDF or MS Word

MS Word or PDF - Which document format should you download? Always download the PDF document, unless you want to edit/change it. If you want to edit/change the document, download the MS Word (Microsoft Word™) version.

Once you finish the Build Guide, your Electric Race Car is ready! At the end of Build Guide you will find many challenges to make it go farther, faster, and available for all-terrain. Download the Engineering Notebook to help you on this journey. Find this in Optional Resources below.

     Optional Resources     

Engineering Notebook

Available at two different learning levels, the TeacherGeek Engineering Notebook is designed to help students cycle thru the Design & Engineering Process and help them innovate and invent new designs. Use an Engineering Notebook page for each iteration of design. It is recommended that extra pages are printed and on-hand during activities.

• Simple Engineering Notebook: PDF
• Engineering Notebook: PDF

STEAM Market-It Challenge

Add the STEAM Market-It Challenge to any completed TeacherGeek activity to teach students how to turn their TeacherGeek design into a retail product. Students will learn the 4 'Ps' of marketing - Product, Placement, Price and Promotion. Students have the option of completing a commercial, a billboard or retail packaging as a summative assessment.

•  STEAM Market-It Challenge: PDF or MS Word

What tools will you need to do this activity?

Make your Electric Car even better by incorporating recycling bin material.

Additional Supplies Needed to Build an Electric Car: This activity requires AA batteries, TeacherGeek Tool Set (reamer, multi-cutter, pliers, screwdriver, hammer, slider block) and a ruler.

What's in the Electric Car activity?