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Ingredients (Serves 1)
Makes a basic rover structure, gears, and arm. Teachers
may want to provide extra materials for students to continue work on
rovers for rover contest!
Recipe: Standard Rocker-Bogey body and two components
- computer connected to the internet with Windows Media or Real
Media downloaded onto it
- 1 empty Baby Wipes© box (8 inch x 5 inch outer dimensions)
- 8 standard tongue depressors
- 8 regular plastic bottle caps (ours came from water bottles)
- 2 larger sized plastic bottle caps (can also be from water,
just need a little bigger diameter)
- 1 clothespin
- 1 Bic© pen cap
- 1 medium sized binder clip
- 1 medium rubber band
- 6 medium or large thumbtacks (short flat round
top)
- 29 pushpins (large plastic backing)
- 1 wooden pencil
- LOTS of masking tape
- scissors (teacher's scissor work best, will be used for cutting
wood)
- ruler
- any other materials you would like to use to individualize
your rover for the contest (paint, extra daily classroom materials,
etc.) Use your imagination!
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*Optional: Print out a copy of the PowerPoint
presentation
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Bonus Recipe: Component-Grabbing arm
- 3 standard tongue depressors
- 2 thumbtacks
- 2 pushpins
- 1 eraser cut from a standard wooden pencil
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