Cable Car Year 3 STEM Kit 8

Level: Challenging

The SkyGlide Explorer Charlie 8 of 10 Cable Car STEM kit is tailored for Year 3 homeschool students, educators, and parents aiming to enhance children’s learning. This kit comes in a drawer-style box with neatly arranged accessories and includes a workbook aligned with the Australian STEM curriculum. The workbook features a marking key to facilitate precise assessment, promoting a well-structured, curriculum-aligned learning journey that encourages skill development and practical exploration.

Included in your kit

• a sustainable wooden model for building
• a spring scale to measure how weight, balance and force affect speed and safety
• a workbook containing
  • an engaging storyline
  • step-by-step building instructions
  • stimulating calculations, exercises, and questions to spark curiosity

Additional resources include a marking key, an Australian STEM curriculum alignment page, stickers and badges, a reusable cotton bag with anti-static properties for accessory storage and other electronic components, a paper ruler for hands-on measurements and investigations, all neatly stored in a drawer-style box designed for reuse and easy stacking with other kits in the series to keep your STEM Voyage organized.

Learning Outcome

Science

AC9S3I03 - Follow procedures to make and record observations, including making formal measurements using familiar scaled instruments and using digital tools as appropriate

Technologies and Engineering

AC9TDE4P04 – Use given or co-developed design criteria including sustainability to evaluate design ideas and solutions

AC9TDI4P05 – Discuss how existing and student solutions satisfy the design criteria and user stories

Mathematics

AC9M3N05 – Estimate the quantity of objects in collections and make estimates when solving problems to determine the reasonableness of calculations

AC9M3M02 – Measure and compare objects using familiar metric units of length, mass and capacity, and instruments with labelled markings