EXPERIMENT MANUAL
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Experiments for Your Remote-Control
Animal Models
After building each model, set up your own experiments to answer the following
questions below. Or come up with your own questions to answer!
››› How long does it take for the animal model to move a distance of one meter?
Which animal model is the fastest and which is the slowest?
››› How far can the animal model move in 20 seconds?
››› Can the animal model walk uphill? Set up an inclined board and see if the
animal model can walk up the board. Try the board at different degrees of
steepness. Likewise, can the animal model walk downhill?
››› How does the incline affect the speed of the animal?
››› What happens when you play with the orientation of the shaft pins in the
medium gear wheels? Instead of puing the shaft pins in the correct holes as
indicated in the instructions, try puing them in the other holes. How does it
affect the animal model’s movement? Do the models still work?
››› How much weight can your animal model pull? Tie a string to the animal model
that can drag along the surface behind the model. Tie various weights, such as
metal hardware (nuts, bolts, etc) to the string. Is the model powerful enough to
pull the weights forward?
››› How does the material of the surface on which the animal model is moving
affect its movement? For example, for the walking animals, do they walk beer
on carpeting, hardwood floor, asphalt, or a lawn?
››› For the models that travel along a string: How does the degree to which the
string is taut affect the animal model’s movement? Can it move along a loose
string as well as it can move along a taut string?
››› Does the IR remote control work the same in a very dark room as in a normally
lit room? What about in a very bright room?
››› Can you control the model from another room, through walls, with the IR
remote control? How about through a window?
››› Can you imagine completely different types of bizarre mechanical animals that
you could make out of the building pieces in this kit? Can you combine the
models and plastic animal skins in new and funny ways to make creative
hybrid animals? How about a flying rabbit, a penguin with the head of a T. rex,
or an elephant with claws?
After you are finished with your experiments, draw conclusions from the observed
results of your experiments.
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