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Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)
Energy and Transport
Personal transport is becoming safer as technological advancements are made and more and more safety features are designed. The resources in this collection explore current transport issues around safety and think about the future of global travel, considering the design of vacuum tube trains and introducing ideas about the environmental, economic, ethical and social impacts of global transport.
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Global Transport: Engineering a Vacuum Tube Train
In this activity, students design and test a model vacuum tube train. They have to decide on how to get a ball to travel through a tube as quickly as possible without the help of gravity. They then look at the forces that would act on a real vacuum tube train.
...Community Transport: Today
In this activity, students are asked to think about current methods of community transport and the associated pros and cons. Their ideas are then used to compile a class list of criteria that future methods of community transport should fulfill. For example,...
Community Transport: Tomorrow
In this activity, students work in teams to research an existing or possible future form of community transport. They mark their system against the agreed criteria from the starter and present their findings to the rest of the class.
...Community Transport: Scenarios
In this activity, students use what they have found out about community transport systems to suggest possible solutions to existing transportation problems. They watch the film Transportation Planning which focuses on the career of a transportation planner who worked on...
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| Subject(s) | Design and technology, Engineering, Mathematics, Science |
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| Age | 11-14, 14-16 |
| Published | 2010 to 2019 |
| Published by | 
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| Direct URL | https://www.stem.org.uk/cx62s |
