Human Powered Vehicle
Staff and students from Stratford Primary School are working together to look at the future with the vision of a sustainable and environmentally friendly world that the children will inherit. They are investigating and exploring current energy practices and applications through interdisciplinary learning as part of the RACV Energy Breakthrough.
The RACV Energy Breakthrough is an exciting program designed to provide opportunities for students, teachers, parents and local industry to work together to design and construct a vehicle, a machine or innovation in technology that will represent an energy breakthrough.
Our students work throughout the year to design, build and test vehicles and machines within detailed specifications. It requires a team effort and an across-the-curriculum approach. These groups then bring their vehicles to Maryborough in November, for a huge celebration of their learning in which they can demonstrate and trial them in action.
The RACV Energy Breakthrough aims to:
actively involve young people in finding solutions for a world they will inherit
provide an excellent technology studies project for primary and post-primary students
provide a great opportunity for schools and communities to work and learn together
provide an opportunity for women and girls to participate in what has traditionally been a male area of the curriculum
be a fun program with real world challenges
offer students opportunities to explore and address vehicle design, driving skills and vehicle and passenger safety issues.
In line with the VELS, the RACV Energy Breakthrough can be applied across the following strands and domains:
Physical, Personal and Social Learning
Health and Physical Education - Movement and physical activity & Health knowledge and promotion
Interpersonal Development - Building social relationships & Working in teams
Personal Learning - Managing personal learning
Civics and Citizenship - Community engagement
The Arts - Creating and making
English - Reading & Writing & Speaking and listening
The Humanities Economics - Economics knowledge and understanding
The Humanities History - Historical knowledge and understanding
Mathematics - Number & Measurement, chance and data & Working mathematically
Science - Science knowledge and understanding & Science at work
Communication - Listening, viewing and responding & Presenting
Design, Creativity and Technology - Investigating and designing & Producing & Analysing and evaluating
Information and Communications Technology (ICT) - ICT for visualising thinking & ICT for creating & ICT for communicating
Thinking Processes - Reasoning, processing and inquiry & Creativity & Reflection, evaluation and metacognition
More information about the RACV Energy Breakthrough can be found at
www.racvenergybreakthrough.net