SUMMATIVE: COLLISIONS PSA PROJECT

One of the rights-of-passage for many high school students is getting your driver's license. Driving comes with a lot of freedom, but it is also one of the most dangerous activities we all participate in daily.

In this project, (working solo or with 1 partner) you will be answering this guiding question:

How do we design, build, and use vehicles to reduce injuries from collisions? How do we improve a vehicle's 'crashworthiness'.?

Your end product will be a Public Service Announcement visual (slide, website, poster) that communicates the following information:

• A description about how momentum/impulse-momentum theorem/energy applies to your specific collision scenario (car collision, plane crash, motorbike, etc.). What factors (variables) determine the severity of an injury?
• Research the history of vehicle safety features. How are they designed to reduce injury in collisions? What is the Physics behind how they help reduce the chance of injury? Ideas: seatbelt, airbag, crumple zone, , safety cage, material design.
• Give a real-world example. Provide a situation, and calculate numerical values for relevant variables that determine the danger to the occupant. Determine the severity of the collision by including a safety feature.

Use this link Links to an external site., download your own copy, to collect notes/ideas/concepts that will help you create your final product.

The standard this will evaluate is:

Apply science and engineering ideas to design/evaluate/refine a device that minimized the force on a macroscopic object during a collision.

Use APA formatting Links to an external site. for your citations and reference page.