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This collection contains nine activities which support science learning within the context of a wide range of engineering design challenges. Designed to foster questioning and creativity and to develop problem-solving skills including testing alternative options, interpreting results and evaluating their solutions. Tasks and challenges have been designed to be as open-ended as possible, and to avoid ‘right answers’; in particular, aiming to avoid competition which may alienate some students, while retaining the motivation of wanting to solve a problem. An important goal of all of the units is to maximise opportunities for group work and to support students in learning to work together and communicate their ideas effectively.
The activities are:
*Life support: direct water flow to plants
*Music to the ears: designing and creating a sound generator
*Knee deep: designing and constructing a water pond
*Huff and puff: designing a device for measuring exhalation volume
*High and dry: protecting objects on a floating platform
*A fine balance: building a hanging sculpture
*Popular mechanics: becoming a designer of machines
*High flyers: building a glider with everyday materials
*Super sucker: designing a machine to clean up litter
* Cosy toes: winter-proof a pair of shoes
These resources were produced under the funding of the 7th framework programme, as part of ENGINEER project, contract No. 288989. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License
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High and Dry: Protecting Objects on a Floating Platform
Aimed at primary level, this resource provides a cross-curricular design and technology project which links to work on the properties and uses of materials and in particular floating and sinking. Throughout the lessons children design and make a floating island and discover more about the work of engineers...
A Fine Balance: Building a Hanging Sculpture
This resource provides a cross-curricular design and technology project aimed at primary children. Linking to work on the forces and balance children build and test sculptures in small groups. They also discover more about the work of mechanical engineers throughout the lessons. The first lesson introduces the task...
Popular Mechanics: Becoming a Designer of Machines
This resource aimed at upper primary contains a series of lessons which look at the means by which machines (cams, levers, gears and pulleys) transform force into movement. The first lesson provides the context for the project in the form of a story, where students are asked to create a counter to count visitors to...
High Flyers: Building a Glider with Everyday Materials
Aimed at upper primary, this resource contains a series of lessons which explore forces and flight through a practical challenge where children work in teams to investigate materials and then design, make and test their own gliders. The first lesson sets the scene and introduces the problem as well as some basic...
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| Subject(s) | Design and technology, Engineering, Science |
|---|---|
| Age | 7-11 |
| Published | 2010 to 2019 |
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| Direct URL | https://www.stem.org.uk/cx666 |
