material used to keep mechanisms in place

Assembling components for an interactive book

Design and technology

Reverse motion levers and linkages

Parallel and push-pull linkages

Bell crank and lazy-tong linkages

Levers and linkages in products

User research

Plan and make an interactive book

Present the book to the user

This unit develops pupils' knowledge of mechanisms through levers and linkages. They will apply this knowledge by exploring mechanisms and incorporating them into an interactive book with a user-centred focus.

Levers and linkages: interactive books

Physical activity and equipment requiring safe use

Use of equipment that may require supervision for safety, e.g. scissors in KS1, needles, paint, knives, cooking.

What is another name for a flap that helps us join two shapes?

What is another name for the guide that keeps the mechanism in place and controls the movement?

What is the part of the page that hides the linkage? 

Which type of pivot holds the linkage in place on the backing card?

the views of those who will use the product.

multiple levers joined together to create different movements 

allows something to go forward, backwards, side-to-side

a list of criteria that a design should meet

Which of these shaping techniques is called scoring?

What does the term ‘assemble a linkage’ mean?

What does the function of a product mean?

Assembling components for an interactive book

Lesson outcome

Content guidance