Intermediate
More steps, more testing.
Crankie Contraption
Learners build a hand-turned cardboard theater and illustrate a story that scrolls across its screen like a movie. Crankies come from a long t...
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Flying Machine
Learners build a rubber-band-powered flyer, draw and cut their own symmetrical wings, and launch it again and again to see how each design fli...
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Linkages
Learners connect cardboard levers and pivots into moving mechanisms, then hide them inside creatures and characters, like animals that dance a...
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Mazes
Learners design a ramp path so a ball zigs, zags, and zooms into a hoop, then connect their maze to a partner's to build one long run. It is a...
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Scene Machines
Learners build an automaton, a hand-cranked machine where turning a handle brings a scene to life. They invent the characters, art, and story,...
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Screen Machines
Learners build a cardboard screen with wooden scroll handles, write and illustrate a story on a paper strip, and crank it to play like a tiny ...
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Strawbot
Learners build a straw robot with a motor and an off-center weight and watch it shake and skitter across the table. Then they turn it into a S...
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Wind-Up Vehicle
Learners build a car powered by a wind-up spring, then take it apart and invent a vehicle all their own. There are no batteries, no wiring, an...
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