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9686 Simple & Powered Machines Set
Age Mark: 8+
Brick Type: LEGO® System and Technic
Piece count: 396
Description:
The core brick set in our range of Machines & Mechanisms solutions, this set includes full-colour building instruction booklets for 10 principle models and 18 main models. Combine with curricular-relevant activity packs and add-on sets to carry out a broad range of activities within design technology, science and mathematics.
Key Learning Values:
．Building and exploring real life Machines and Mechanisms
．Investigating powered machines with the motor
．Using plastic sheets for calibration and capturing wind
．Exploring gearing mechanisms with the assorted gear wheels
2009686 Introducing Simple & Powered Machines
Age Mark: 8+
Brick Type: /
Piece count: 1
Description:
With this activity pack students get a fundamental understanding of simple machines, structures and mechanisms. The pack features 37 principle model activities, 14 main activities, including extension activities, and six problem-solving tasks. Flash animations introduce the activities. Teacher's notes, student worksheets and glossary included.
Key Learning Values:
．Investigating the principles of simple machines, mechanisms and structures
．Experimenting with balanced and unbalanced forces
．Experimenting with friction
．Capturing, storing and transferring wind energy
．Measuring distance, time, speed and weight
．Calibrating scales
．Investigating powered forces and motion, speed and pulling power
2009687 Advancing with Simple & Powered Machines
Age Mark: 10+
Brick Type: /
Piece count: 1
Description:
This activity pack allows students to get an in-depth understanding of simple machines, mechanisms, structures and mechanical advantage. It includes 38 principle model activities, four main activities, including extension activities, and eight problem-solving activities. Real-life video clips introduce students to the activities. Teacher's notes, student worksheet and glossary included.
Key Learning Values:
．Investigating the principles of simple machines, mechanisms and structures
．Mechanical advantage
．Balanced and unbalanced forces
．Equilibrium
．Block and tackle
．Effect of force on an object
．Experimenting with friction
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9688 Renewable Energy Add-on Set
Age Mark: 8+
Brick Type: LEGO® System and Technic
Piece count: 12
Description:
This exciting add-on set allows students to learn about renewable energy sources and can be used with the Simple & Powered Machines Set (9686) and LEGO MINDSTORMS Education (9797). The set includes a solar panel, turbine blades, a motor/generator, LED lights, an extension wire, a LEGO Energy Meter and full-colour building instructions for six real-life LEGO models to build with 9686. Add the Renewable Energy Activity Pack (2009688) for detailed lesson plans to cover solar, wind and hydro power. Connected to the MINDSTORMS NXT brick, the energy meter works as a sensor and can be used for both programming and data logging. Activities and Building instructions for using 9688 with MINDSTORMS can be downloaded free of charge on this website.
Key Learning Values:
．Building and exploring renewable energy through real-life LEGO models
．Exploring energy supply, transfer, accumulation, conversion and consumption
．Engaging students in engineering and design
9641 Pneumatics Add on Set
Age Mark: 10+
Brick Type: LEGO® System and Technic
Piece count: 31
Description:
The Pneumatics Add-on Set for the 9632/9686 Base Set provides five principle models and four real-life pneumatics models. Includes full-colour building instructions, pumps, tubes, cylinders, valves, air tank and a manometer. Combine with the 2009641 activity pack to carry out 14 principle model activities, four new lesson plans and two problem-solving tasks.
Key Learning Values:
．Building and exploring pneumatics through real-life LEGO models
．Investigating power systems and components
．Pressure measuring in psi and bar
．Exploring kinetic and potential energy
2009688 Activity Pack for Renewable Energy Add-on Set
Age Mark: 10+
Brick Type: /
Piece count: 1
Description:
This activity pack provides six 45-minute lessons and four problem-solving activities that allow students to explore the three major renewable energy sources, solar, wind and water, through real-life LEGO models. Includes a wide range of real-life images, ideal for introducing them to the topic and task at hand. Teacher's notes, student worksheets and glossary included.
Key Learning Values:
．Exploring renewable energy sources
．Investigating energy supply, transfer, accumulation, conversion and consumption
．Using measurements and data analysis to describe and explain outcomes
2009641 Activity Pack for Pneumatics
Age Mark: 10+
Brick Type: /
Piece count: 1
Description:
This activity pack provides 14 principle model activities, four 45-minute pneumatics lessons each with extension activities of up to 20 minutes, and two additional problem-solving tasks. Video clips introduce the activities by showing real-life machines, which are similar to the LEGO models used in the lessons.
Key Learning Values:
．Building and exploring pneumatics through real-life LEGO models
．Exploring sequence and control
．Engaging students in engineering and design
．Using measures and data analysis to describe and explain outcomes
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