When you collaborate with someone, it means that you work with them.

To communicate is to share your ideas and plans through writing or talking and could include using photographs, charts, diagrams and videos.

A challenge is something difficult that requires effort to do or overcome.

Problem-solving is working to find solutions to problems.

If you are resilient, you are able to cope with challenges without giving up.

Design and development of machines

Science

Introduction to gravity

Pushes and pulls

Friction: plan

Friction: do and review

Air resistance: plan

Air resistance: do and review

Water resistance: plan

Water resistance: do and review

How levers can help us

How pulleys can help us

How gears can help us

Simple machines

In this Forces and simple machines unit, pupils learn that air resistance, water resistance and friction push back against moving objects. In this Forces unit, pupils will build on this knowledge to accurately describe and explain the actions of forces in a range of situations.

In the Simple forces including magnets unit, pupils learnt to compare how things move on different surfaces. In this Forces including simple machines unit, pupils will build on this knowledge to identify the effects of air resistance, water resistance and friction, that act between moving surfaces

This unit covers the effects of gravity, air resistance, water resistance, and friction on objects. It explores how mechanisms like levers, pulleys, and gears magnify forces. Emphasis is on taking precise measurements, recording complex data, and presenting findings.

Forces including simple machines

Physical activity and equipment requiring safe use

sharing ideas and plans through writing, diagrams photos or talking

overcoming events or issues that make a project hard to complete

Match the skills engineers and scientists need for a project to be successful.

Which part of scientists' tests are likely to be most useful to engineers?

each team having different colour t-shirts

When scientists and engineers collaborate, what could help a project run smoothly?

test different materials that could be used to build bridges

design and build machines used to collect samples

If you are {{}} you are able to cope with challenges without giving up.

Simple machines are designed by engineers. Why do people use machines?

to design solutions and help solve problems

Engineers design and create new processes or machines that have not been used before. What are these called?

raise the height of a load without lifting

Ancient Egyptian engineers used inclined planes to help build the pyramids. What do inclined planes help people to do?

I’ve noticed that the birds don’t eat red insects.

I could design a red scarecrow to keep birds away.

Match the skills that an engineer might have to the examples.

An engineer is including gears in their design. Which of these gear systems will make the output turning force slower and stronger than the input?

Starter Quiz

Simple machines are designed by engineers. Why do people use machines?