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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.

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Piloting with the primary school - Alivola - Step 3 - January 10, 2013 - Photos and Video

 

1 - In this video the work made today. Today the children will build their second automata, with a different mechanism, in order to continue to become familiar with the construction techniques, materials and mechanisms. 2 - The teacher Clohe shows the automata: is a bird that moves alternately to the left and to the right, while the crank rotates always in the same direction. 3 - The mechanism is hidden. is a double cam with two wheels that move around the horizontal axis, and the hole of which is decentralized. The wheels are opposed to each other, and this creates the reciprocating motion.
4 - The children are asked to try to imagine the mechanism and draw the notebook Clohe. is a work in groups of four. As we see from the notebooks, only the use of design integrated  to the practice allows to continue.
5 - Is given to children even the material, so that they can both draw that experiment manually.
Children begin to experiment manually.
6 - Some things become clear slowly: the opposite directions of rotation and the position of the two parallel wheels.
The use of materials is important: also in this case the mechanism is three-dimensional and three-dimensional representation on a sheet of paper is not easy.
7 - The mechanism is constructed and they passed to the characters and decorations. The children share the work: some cut out, some glue, others draw or color.
8 - The first characters come to life and out of the rubber sheet. are put into position to try the movement and the effect.
9 - The fixed decorations: front, rear and top of the box. Children use the space as a scenic support and  the scene will emphasize the movement of the characters.
10 - Here are the completed jobs: the first character tries the mom who was taken by a ghost and can not find her. The second is a unicorn in the clouds
11 -  And here's a parrot, followed by a lion on a brown hill. 12 -  In this video the work made today