Video - IIHS Virtual Field Trip

Thanks to their amazing teachers, over 60,000 6th–12th grade students participated in this free, 90-minute LIVE online field trip! The recording is a great resource for those looking to bring it's impact to their classroom on their own time.

Hear how physics, biology, chemistry, engineering, and technology power real-world innovations that keep vehicles and passengers safe. Go behind the scenes at the IIHS testing facilities to see exactly how crash tests happen and how vehicles earn their safety ratings. Plus- hear the experts answer students’ burning questions.

Feel the adrenaline as you witness an IIHS car crash! After- jump into the
Crash Science in the Classroom curriculum challenge, and watch students apply their fresh knowledge and design skills to engineer protection for occupants in a simulated car crash

Witness science in action, sparks of curiosity, and a crash course in safety!

Activities for the Classroom

Take the science back to the classroom and have your students collect their own data!

With student-led data collection:

Your students will use PocketLab G-Force to collect data and design a crash cushion meant to reduce the forces that act on a vehicle during a collision with a wall. Check out the lesson here!

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Low-Tech Alternative (or addition!)

Students will use readily available materials to design and build a paper car designed to protect its raw egg occupant! Check out the lesson here.

Even more activities:

Explore free educational resources to help you learn or teach about the science of car crashes.

Videos, demonstrations and teacher-developed, classroom-tested activities aligned to the latest standards bring crash safety STEM applications to grade 5-12 classrooms.

Free Crash Science in the Classroom lessons
More lessons to use with PocketLab G-Force