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

Posted on December 9, 2012 by Jennifer Garlick

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

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

Posted on October 23, 2012 by Jennifer Garlick

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’

Posted on September 18, 2012 by Jennifer Garlick

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.