Machines- making life Easier or Difficult ?
“ We have developed machines to make our lives easier. “ was the central idea o
f the last unit taken by Grade-3. But, somehow we teachers felt that this unit will make students’ life difficult ! The reason behind it, was that we have to teach our LITTLE ones the HUGE concepts of simple machines, friction and gravity. So, we decided to make it interesting for them and their life easier !
We started the unit with the tuning-in activity of provocation table, where we kept a large number of objects like juicer-mixer, skates, ladder, spoon, bat etc. The students used their thought process to inquire the relation between all the objects that they explored and this activity tuned them for the unit. The students had fun in their learning about the concepts of gravity and friction, with the help of monkey bars and slides in the Jungle gym. The workstation activity for understanding levers, provided them with hands on experience and even helped them in understanding the different classes of lever. Students gave a very enthusiastic and overwhelming response to the cart and winch making activity. The list of learning experiences in this unit was a long one but we would like to mention a few. They were: sc
rew inspectors, work-relay games, interviewing school workers, making 3D-models of simple machines, making lemonade and viewing videos about complex machines.
Overall this unit, made the students and the teachers, THINKERS and this unit was so much enjoyed by the students that even after completion of this unit, whenever they come across any machine, they identify the simple machines in them.
Smriti Arora
Grade 3 - Inspire
f the last unit taken by Grade-3. But, somehow we teachers felt that this unit will make students’ life difficult ! The reason behind it, was that we have to teach our LITTLE ones the HUGE concepts of simple machines, friction and gravity. So, we decided to make it interesting for them and their life easier !We started the unit with the tuning-in activity of provocation table, where we kept a large number of objects like juicer-mixer, skates, ladder, spoon, bat etc. The students used their thought process to inquire the relation between all the objects that they explored and this activity tuned them for the unit. The students had fun in their learning about the concepts of gravity and friction, with the help of monkey bars and slides in the Jungle gym. The workstation activity for understanding levers, provided them with hands on experience and even helped them in understanding the different classes of lever. Students gave a very enthusiastic and overwhelming response to the cart and winch making activity. The list of learning experiences in this unit was a long one but we would like to mention a few. They were: sc
rew inspectors, work-relay games, interviewing school workers, making 3D-models of simple machines, making lemonade and viewing videos about complex machines.Overall this unit, made the students and the teachers, THINKERS and this unit was so much enjoyed by the students that even after completion of this unit, whenever they come across any machine, they identify the simple machines in them.
Smriti Arora
Grade 3 - Inspire
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