518288-LLP-1-2011-1-IT-COMENIUS-CMP 

Clockwork objects, enhanced learning: Automata Toys Construction in primary education for Learning to Learn promotion, creativity fostering & Key Competences acquisition, with the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency.

This project has been funded with support from the European Commission.

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1st Piloting - Alivola - Step 1 - Stakeholders - Photo & Video

 

   
1 - The workshop for stakeholders started at 9 am on November 8, 2012.
There are 12 people, including three teachers, two artists, three museum employees and four other stakeholders.		 2 - This is the mechanism to discover: a friction wheel: the 3D cam transforms a circular motion in another circular movement, orthogonal to it.
 The pressure of the upper horizontal wheel produces enough friction to permit movement.		 3 - And this is an automata that uses the same mechanism. You may click on the image to see the movement of the bird and the mechanism. 
     
4 - After the presentation of the project, first hypothesis and first drawings 5 - Materials are on the table, everyone can take what they need. 6 - Experimenting with materials, the hypotheses are tested.
     
 7 - To test the mechanism they build the cardboard box that will serve as a basis for automata  8 - The mechanism is tested inside the box 9 - Something doesn't work...thinking on it
     
10 - Need some help? 11 - Clohe teachers go round to help. 12 - The mechanism works!
     
13 - Drawing on a piece of soft rubber and then cutting out the figures 14 - it's time to give the opportunity to see other already made automata. 15 - Preparing the figures
     
16 - Testing mechanisms and figures 17 - The automata are ready: this is a flying disk with rubber propellers 18 - The sun and the moon change color at every turn, while someone is watching them.
     
19 - A cat perched on the moon observed a yellow flower. 20 - Marine animals of Stefania. 21 - A lion, a panther and a bear make company
     
22 - Alessandra's family, with her cat and her donkey 23 - A lady in the woods raises her hands to the sky 24 - Other marine animals!
   
25 - All the automata are now ready. It was a day full of discovery. 26 - The presentation of the work: everyone talks about his journey, the difficulties and solutions 27 - A video about this step.