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Design & Technology

Push and Pull

Vocabulary: 

Lever, linkage, mechanism, pivot, slider. 

 

Children learn that machines make work easier and define the terms machine, component and mechanism.  They explore sliders, levers and linkages and make moving models of all three using joining and finishing techniques.  Children apply their learning to design and make greeting cards with moving part that use these mechanisms. 

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