Explore how technologies use forces to create movement in productsElaborationsexploring how the principles of push and pull are used in the design of toys, for example in a spinning toy such as an Aboriginal mammandur (Skills: Numeracy, Critical and Creative Thinking)identifying, and playing and exp...
Explore how technologies use forces to create movement in products
Elaborations
exploring how the principles of push and pull are used in the design of toys, for example in a spinning toy such as an Aboriginal mammandur (Skills: Numeracy, Critical and Creative Thinking)
identifying, and playing and experimenting with, components such as wheels, balls, slides, springs and available local materials, tools and equipment to solve problems requiring movement (Skills: Literacy, Numeracy, Critical and Creative Thinking)
selecting materials to demonstrate how material properties are appropriate for particular designed solutions, for example materials that enable sliding or floating (Skills: Critical and Creative Thinking)
exploring a system such as a marionette or Indonesian wayang kulit shadow puppet to see that by combining materials with forces movement can be created (Skills: Numeracy, Critical and Creative Thinking)
combining materials and using forces in design, for example designing the door on a cage or a simple conveyor belt to move materials short distances (Skills: Numeracy, Critical and Creative Thinking)
exploring how to manipulate materials using a range of tools, equipment and techniques to create movement, for example when constructing a toy boat that floats and moves (Skills: Numeracy, Critical and Creative Thinking)
