checking if a product is good or needs improving

Present the book to the user

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

Assembling components for an interactive book

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

Environmental impact considers reducing, reusing and ...

checking to see if something works and evaluating how it works

making judgements that are positive and negative

Why do manufacturers always test products?

recycling the product at the end of its use

Which of these linkages is a reverse motion linkage?

Which linkage has the same input and output movement?

What part of the linkage holds it in place and supports movement?

The word aesthetics means what something...

Match the keywords to the correct meaning.

Starter Quiz

Which of these linkages is a reverse motion linkage?