No problem is too hard for Year 2. Popcorn anyone?

Dear Bloggers,

Year 2 has been working with wheels, axles and gears.

This lesson they were given the challenge to design a Popcorn cart that was:

  • stable
  • had a moving sign operated with a handle
  • mobile
  • able to hold popcorn

 

Kynan and Dominic pictured below, in one short hour, produced the most amazing results.

Their cart could steer as the steering wheel moved the front axle, had a mechanism using a crown and spur gear to turn the sign, the gearing ratios turned the sign slowly  for ease of reading, the turning handle was easy to access, there were multiple trays to hold the popcorn and the drivers had a seat.  The sign was double sided, clear and only contained significant words -‘ popcorn’ … the product , ‘delicious’ …. an enticing adjective and ‘a smiley face’ … an inviting and happy graphic.

WOW boys  – well done.

 

 

Side or oblique view

other side

cart from behind

 

 

Needless to say the other students in Year 2 also produced brilliant models and worked very well.

Have a look in the gallery below.

Thanks for calling by

Mrs Garlick

 

Year 2 were ‘Wheely’ working well

Dear Bloggers,

2AF and 2S were experimenting with wheels and becoming familiar with words such as axle, rotate, hub and tyre.  They built model cars that could be steered by a turning a steering wheel moving the front axle.

 

 

Thanks for calling by

 

Mrs Garlick

2S ‘Gear Up’ to use the Not So Simple ‘Simple Machines’.

Dear Bloggers,

Year 2 are now using the ‘Simple Machines’ lego.  We are currently doing a unit on ‘Gears’ and the children made simple machines with two gears the same size (direction change only),  two different sized gears to gear up and down and they used an idler gear.

 

 

 

 

Thanks for calling by

 

Mrs Garlick

 

 

 

 

 

 

2S – the inaugural users of the new system ‘Simple Machines’

Dear Bloggers,

Last week in class 2S cut open the boxes and unpacked the brand new lego from the new ‘Simple Machines’ kit. They were the inaugural uses of these kits and they were very excited.

 

Thanks for calling by

Mrs Garlick

2S Scare the Birds Away

Dear Bloggers,

2S were given the design brief – make a stable scarecrow-  with at least one moving part- that is as scary as possible.

 

 

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Mrs Garlick

2S get into the ‘Swing Of Things’

Dear Bloggers,

2S were given the challenge to design and make a swing that: was stable, had a safe balanced seat for one and the period of the swing, that is the time taken for it to swing backwards and forwards once, was as long a possible.  We used stop watches to time the duration of 10 complete backwards and forwards motions and compared results.

Students discovered that the swings with the longest strings or side arms took the greatest time to swing backwards and forwards.

 

 

Thanks for calling by.

Mrs Garlick

Year 2 – The Big Splash

 

Dear Bloggers,

Year 2 designed and made a raft from Lego.

That was the easy part – the big splash began when we started racing them.  Just look at the photos below to see how hard the children tried.

It was great educational fun.

 

Thanks for looking.

Please call by again

Mrs Garlick