Biology Project (Ampebious Car)

Amphibious Car

Zachary Kara & Khayree Jackson

















The reason I chose this was because I thought that I should have fun with my project. I was very interested in building a small amphibious car. The idea seams to be both more than acceptable as a 10th grade project and appealing to my project partner and I. The idea of this project is to build a small mechanical car of about 5 inches in length 2 to 3 inches in width, and be able to drive it on water. As we researched approaches to making this we found that we could use K’nex to build the frame.

Question: is it possible to build an amphibious car out of k’nex?
Hypothesis: I hypothesis that it will be possible to build an amphibious car out of k’nex
Materials: 500 piece set of assorted k’nex parts, pieces of styraphome, hot glue gun, glue sticks for the hot glue gun, plastic folder.

Procedures:
Step1: pull out all different parts that are in the k’nex box
Step2: look in the booklet that comes with the box and choose a vehical to build
Step3: once the vehical is chosen assemble the parts needed to build the vehical
Step4: build the put the vehical together
Step5: shape a peace of styraphome out to fit on the bottom of the vehical
Step6: glue the styraphome with the hot glue gun to the bottom of the vehical or assemble two styraphome cut outs to the sides of the vehical depending on which vehical chosen, both methods work.
Step7: cut the folder into 1” long 1/4 “ width pieces.
Step8: fold the pieces in half from top to bottom, then strap at least 3 o noeach tire with rubber bands, the amphibiouse car is complete
Data Table:
Time Distance Direction
41 seconds 19 inches Forward
55 seconds 19 inches Backward
33 seconds 12 inches Forward
44 seconds 12 inches Backward


Results: the car does in fact drive on the water. It seems to drive faster going forward then backward.

Conclusion: Our hypothesis was correct we where able to build an amphibious car out of k’nex. This project was successful.