Mechanisms

Design and make a moving monster

Design 

•Creating a class design criteria for a moving monster.  

• Designing a moving monster for a specific audience in accordance with a  design criteria.  

Make 

• Making linkages using card for levers and  split pins for pivots. 

• Experimenting with linkages adjusting  the widths, lengths and thicknesses of card  used.  

• Cutting and assembling components neatly. 

Evaluate

• Evaluating own designs against design  criteria.  

• Using peer feedback to modify a final  design.  

Technical Knowledge 

•To know that mechanisms are a collection of moving parts that work  together as a machine to produce  movement. 

• To know that there is always an input and output in a mechanism. 

• To know that an input is the energy that is used to start something working. 

• To know that an output is the movement  that happens as a result of the input. 

• To know that a lever is something that turns on a pivot. 

• To know that a linkage mechanism is made up of a series of levers.