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Move it investigation with Year 2

  • August 9, 2020
  • Kerrie Cogger
  • · Science · Year 2 · Year 2 Blue · Year 2 Gold

This term the Year 2 students are learning a new unit from Primary Connections and it is a very exciting topic.  The topic is all about the fascination children have with machines.  From an early age their world is surrounded by machines that move, make noises and light up.

Some machines are so simple that they might not be considered to be a machine at all, such as ramps and seesaws.  However, all machines wither complicated or simple help us to do work.

The students were introduced to Rube Goldberg.  Rube Goldberg made simple tasks more complicated by creating and constructing intricately designed machines to do every day simple tasks.  The majority of forces in a Rube Goldberg machine are push and pull forces.

This week the Year 2 students made their first initial attempts to construct a Rube Goldberg machine by investigating ‘What different ways can we push or pull a toy car to make it move?’ Here are a few photos of the students at their team investigations.

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