Description
- Overview:
- This video is meant to be a fun, hands-on session that gets students to think hard about how machines work. It teaches them the connection between the geometry that they study and the kinematics that engineers use -- explaining that kinematics is simply geometry in motion. In this lesson, geometry will be used in a way that students are not used to. Materials necessary for the hands-on activities include two options: pegboard, nails/screws and a small saw; or colored construction paper, thumbtacks and scissors. Some in-class activities for the breaks between the video segments include: exploring the role of geometry in a slider-crank mechanism; determining at which point to locate a joint or bearing in a mechanism; recognizing useful mechanisms in the students' communities that employ the same guided motion they have been studying.
- Level:
- High School
- Material Type:
- Lecture
- Author:
- Daniel D. Frey, MIT BLOSSOMS
- Provider:
- M.I.T.
- Provider Set:
- M.I.T. Blossoms
- Date Added:
- 06/02/2012
- License:
-
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0
- Language:
- English, Arabic
- Media Format:
- Downloadable docs, Text/HTML, Video
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