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Thinking sheet · Imagine and invent
Build a Wacky Vehicle
Mash two vehicles together, choose a character to drive it and decide where it goes.
- Grades
- K–5
- Time
- about 25 minutes
- Topic
- Imagine and invent
- Kids practice
- combining ideas, design features, explaining function
What kids do
“A bus plus a rocket? A bike plus a submarine? Build something wacky!”
- Vehicle 1:
- Vehicle 2:
- Draw your wacky vehicle with its driver
- Where it can go:
- Its coolest button does…
How to run it
- List vehicles on the board: bus, boat, helicopter, scooter, train.
- Ask what each half adds: wheels, wings, propellers.
- Robots and dinosaurs make great drivers.
Talk about it
- What can your vehicle do that neither one could do alone?
- What would the dashboard look like?
- Where would you go first?
Take it further
Draw a map of the route your vehicle takes.
Pairs well with
Free for home and classroom use. Print as many copies as you need.
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