1 UNIT 7. MACHINES & STRUCTURES.
C.E.I.P. SANTA ANA (Madridejos)
PROJECTS.
PROJECT 1: (In groups or three or four pupils) On a cardboard, you are going to make a poster about the biography and discoveries of a famous inventor. .– Biography. .– Inventions. .– Pictures of him/her, inventions… You can find information from books, internet… Let’s see an example about the life of LEONARDO DA VICI (1452-1519)
DA LEONARDO 1519) VINCI (1452 BIOGRAPHY: He was born in Vinci (1452), and he died in 1519. He was a painter, sculptor, architect… he was very good at maths, engineering… He painted ‘The Last Supper’, ‘The Mona Lisa’… He invented his own machines and he made beautiful drawings of those inventions. He knew a lot about human body anatomy. He was one of the most important characters of that times. Leonardo’s portrait. Anatomical study of the arm.
Leonardo’s robot.
Vitruvian Man ( ideal human proportions)
Leonardo’s flying machine.
Leonardo’s invention for war. Leonardo’s helicopter.
Leonardo’s parachute.
2 C.E.I.P. SANTA ANA (Madridejos)
UNIT 7. MACHINES & STRUCTURES.
PROJECT 2: (In groups or three or four pupils) Design and build (with recycling materials) a complex machine using some of the six simple machines that we have studied: Wheel and axle / Lever / Screw / Inclined plane / Pulley / Wedge You can design by yourselves or you can get some ideas from books, internet‌ You can record a video, or you can bring them to the class, and explain their functioning to your classmates. Here you can see some examples: 1
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