Billy Cart Incursions
Experience collaboration at its best with this iconic program!
In our most popular incursion for 17 years, students are encouraged to collaborate, regulate their thinking, and stay focused as they design, race, and problem-solve. Through building and testing vehicles, students explore key forces like gravity, friction, push, and pull while developing patience, communication, and cooperative skills.
Billy Carts (Primary School)
✅ Ideal for Foundation – Year 6
Students plan, build, and test their own billy carts—experimenting with weight, friction, balance, and momentum to shape performance outcomes. Through hands-on construction and guided challenges, teams make predictions, solve problems, and refine their designs before putting them to the test in friendly races. This highly engaging experience strengthens teamwork, communication, resilience, and STEM thinking, giving students both scientific insights and the thrill of building something that moves.
F–2: Teams build simple machines using Tubelox, timber, and real tools. Students race billy carts with a partner and explore Ezy-Rollers while learning about push, pull, and basic forces.
3–6: Teams build and test mini billy carts, refine timber constructions using ramps and tools, and race billy carts with partners, applying deeper concepts in force, motion, and energy.
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Science – Science Understanding:
Forces & motion, Simple machines, Energy transfer, Materials & their properties
Science – Science Inquiry Skills:
Predicting, Testing, Observing change, Recording & evaluating results
Design & Technologies:
Engineering principles, Design processes, Prototyping, Evaluating solutions
Mathematics:
Measurement, Timing & distance, Data collection (speeds, outcomes)
Personal & Social Capability:
Collaboration, Teamwork, Communication, Resilience
Billy Cart Blitz (Secondary)
✅ Ideal for Year 7–12
Students work in teams to design and build full-size billy carts from the ground up, following a structured engineering and design process. They apply principles of force, motion, energy, structural integrity, and material selection as they construct, test, and refine their vehicles. The session ends with a high-energy race that’s hands-on, competitive, and the ultimate engineering challenge!
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Science – Physical Sciences:
Forces & motion, Energy transfer, Momentum, Friction & resistance
Design & Technologies:
Engineering principles, Structural design, Prototyping, Evaluating solutions
Mathematics:
Measurement & geometry, Graphing speeds & distances, Optimisation strategies
Personal & Social Capability:
Team roles, Leadership, Collaboration, Strategic decision-making
Pre and post resource packs provided, supporting your lesson planning for the entire term.
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