Hot Wheels Lab

Ms. Borden’s 8^th-grade science class recently employed classic toys in their lab, which demonstrated velocity and acceleration! Her students built ramps constructed of mini whiteboards and textbooks. They then raced hot-wheels cars on their ramps, and recorded the time it took their cars to travel a certain distance. The students were able to calculate the velocity of their cars using their measurements. Finally, they changed the height of the ramps in order to investigate how ramp height affected velocity.