Lesson Four – Gadget Inventions
This science teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to practise planning and producing a class presentation to demonstrate how to use mechanical advantages for levers, pulleys or gears to solve a problem.
The class can illustrate and record how to either use levers, pulleys or gears to design an invention to use in school or at home such as washing some dirty dishes or clearing away toys.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to practise planning and producing a class presentation to demonstrate how to use mechanical advantages for levers, pulleys or gears to solve a problem
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to suggest how to solve problems using a combination of levers, pulleys and gears and a template to identify and record how to either use levers, pulleys and gears to solve a problem for a mechanical advantage.
The interactive presentation can be used to explore how to produce a class presentation to demonstrate how to use mechanical advantages to solve a problem.
This lesson is part of a science scheme of work to get the children to research, test and illustrate how to use different types of levers, pulleys and gears to change the direction and strength of a range of forces. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.
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