The Research and Design package offers practical learning opportunities, to investigate the role science and technology plays in research and design. Learners develop an understanding of how STEM impacts our world, through the context of a modern mass transit system based upon a maglev train simulation.
Typical practical activities include:
Identify transportation issues as problems that a Research and Design project might attempt to solve
Extract information to create a formal list of specifications for a Design Brief
Investigate and Research Transportation technologies
Use the Internet to research information about the fuels used in Propulsion Systems
Use a virtual laboratory to test materials for use in making electrical contacts
Measure the force created by a model vehicle crashing
Design a buffer to be used with a model Maglev vehicle
Discover how computers are used to control automatic
Reduce the fares paid by passengers using a Maglev transportation system