This week, the children were given the following design brief.
The children investigated cam mechanisms and identified the different components. They looked at different shaped cams and discussed how they moved differently.
What is a cam? What is a follower?
What different types of cams have you learnt about and how do they work?
They created a design for one of the children and planned out how they would go about making the moving toy. They worked in pairs to do this.
What was your design idea?
In pairs, children built a frame, made a cam mechanism and then thought about aesthetics.
Building the frame and a working cams mechanism:
Working on the aesthetics:
What challenges did you face?
Did you have to adapt your plan? How?
Our final products….
The toys were a huge success and both Sadie and Arthur loved them! we done to the winning designs!
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