Teachers

Build engineering skills in your students by taking them through an activity. These activities are easy to implement and help foster inquisitive young minds.

About Engineering
About Engineering

Aimed at lower primary students, this resource kit is the perfect introduction to learning about what engineering is, and a description of simple machines and building and structures.

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Construct a catapult
Construct a catapult

Aimed at lower primary students, this activity kit involves creating catapults out of recycled and household items. The guide includes – Lesson ideas – Project instructions – Experimenting with levers – Simple machines every day – Tools and machines – Know Want Learnt (KWL) Chart – Think Want Learnt How (TWLH) Chart.

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Construct a pull along toy
Construct a pull along toy

Aimed at primary school students, this activity kit is about engaging students in thinking about wheels and axels. The guide includes – Lesson ideas – Project instructions – How do simple machines help us? – Machines are all around us – What is engineering? – Wheels and axles – Popular pull-along toys – Know Want Learnt (KWL) Chart – Think Want Learnt How (TWLH) Chart

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Construct a solar cooker
Construct a solar cooker

Aimed at lower primary students, this activity kit will encourage students to explore how sunlight can be reflected to concentrate it and raise the temperature. The guide includes – Lesson ideas – Project instructions – Design your own solar powered robot – How solar power works – How solar power works - solutions – Know Want Learnt (KWL) Chart – Think Want Learnt How (TWLH) Chart

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Construct a water wheel
Construct a water wheel

Aimed at lower primary students, this activity encourages students to design and construct a simple water wheel model that turns by the flow of water. The guide includes – Lesson ideas – Project instructions – Simple machines every day – Tools and machines – Draw your own water wheel – Wheels and axles – Know Want Learnt (KWL) Chart – Think Want Learnt How (TWLH) Chart

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Construct a catchment
Construct a catchment

Aimed at lower primary students, this activity encourages students to investigate dams and reservoirs in their local areas, and create their own model. This guide includes: –– Lesson ideas–– Project instructions–– ‘Animals in the Cotter Catchment’ activity sheet–– Know Want Learnt (KWL) Chart–– Think Want Learnt How (TWLH) Chart.

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Publish a book
Publish a Book

Aimed at lower primary students, this activity encourages students to create and bind a book. This guide includes: – Lesson ideas – Project instructions – ‘What is engineering?’ activity sheet – ‘Look what engineering teams are doing!’ activity sheet – ‘Engineering at school’ activity sheet – Know Want Learnt (KWL) Chart – Think Want Learnt How (TWLH) Chart

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Rebuild a community
Rebuild a Community

Aimed at lower primary students, this activity encourages students to think about what makes a community, identify the people in our community who help us, and how to rebuild after a disaster.

The guide includes: – Lesson ideas – Project instructions – ‘Energy for my community’ activity sheet – ‘Environmentally-friendly city’ activity sheet – ‘Safe and environmentally friendly homes’ activity sheet – ‘Safe and efficienty traffic systems’ activity sheet – Know Want Learnt (KWL) Chart – Think Want Learnt How (TWLH) Chart – ‘What natural disaster am I?’ Activity sheet

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Construct a straw bridge
Construct a Straw Bridge

Aimed at lower primary students, this activity encourages students to design and construct a 40cm-long straw bridge. The guide includes: – Lesson ideas – Project instructions – ‘Simple machines every day’ activity sheet – Know Want Learnt (KWL) Chart – Think Want Learnt How (TWLH) Chart

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Construct a lifting machine
Construct a Lifting Machine

Aimed at primary students, this activity allows students to design and create a machine to lift a load to a height of at least 50cm. This guide includes: – Lesson ideas – Project instructions – What is engineering? – How do simple machines help us? – Wheels and axles – Levers – Machines are all around us – Pulleys investigation – Know Want Learnt (KWL) chart – Think Want Learnt How (TWLH) chart

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Construct a model house
Construct a Model House

Aimed at primary students, this activity encourages students to research, design and construct a model house, including planning the size, layout and features. This guide includes: – Lesson ideas – Project instructions – What is engineering? – How do simple machines help us? – Who helped to create items in my house? – Machines are all around us – Safe and environmentally-friendly homes – Acrostic poem – Know Want Learnt (KWL) Chart – Think Want Learnt How (TWLH) Chart

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Construct a newspaper dome
Construct a Newspaper Dome

Aimed at primary students, this activity encourages students to design and construct a dome out of newspaper and masking tape. This guide includes: – Lesson ideas – Project instructions – What is engineering? – Machines are all around us – Know Want Learnt (KWL) Chart – Think Want Learnt How (TWLH) Chart

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