I enjoyed watching auto races as a child, so I decided to check out Norm Barstow’s session, Elastic Power: Wind Up Your Engines and Explore (a.k.a. “NASCAR in New Orleans”).

Barstow had elementary and middle school teachers use an elastic-powered wooden car to explore energy transfer and force and motion.

Check out Barstow’s “lab coat”: No boring science lessons for his students! 🙂

Start your engines…

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I interviewed Barbara Park about her experiences in this session.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zf62Zjwq39c[/youtube]