Technologies · Year 5 · Design and Technologies: Engineering, Food and Materials · Extension Unit
Engineering Principles in Action
Students explore how forces, motion, and energy transfer are harnessed in simple machines and engineered systems.
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Students explore how forces, motion, and energy transfer are harnessed in simple machines and engineered systems.
Key Questions
- Which simple machines underpin the complex tools we use today?
- How does a small change in design affect the forces a structure must carry?
- Where in everyday life do we benefit from engineering we never notice?
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