Structures and Mechanisms: Motion

A career in engineering would let you help people through designing and implementing the things they use in their daily lives.

Design and build a model space probe.

Students explore careers that involve the concepts of form and function.

Students use their understanding of form and function to design an innovative object or device.

The lever is a type of simple machine. Learn about the different classes of levers and how they provide mechanical advantage.

Have fun discovering what magnets can pick up in this hands on activity.

5 images of examples where inclined planes are used to help lift or move objects such as ramps for accessibility or entertainment

6 images of some objects such as tweezers, scissors and wheel barrows that use the lever principle to create movement for a specific purpose

6 images of some objects such as in fitness equipment which use wheels with grooves in their rims called pulleys for movement

5 images of some objects such as corkscrews that have a mechanism of an inclined plane wrapped around a cylinder to create movement

6 images of some tools such as axes and spikes that are inclined planes and used to help push objects apart

6 images of some objects such as ferris wheels and skate boards with wheel and axle mechanisms that create rotary movement

10 images of some spherical objects such as golf balls and tennis balls that are made of different materials and used for specific purposes