Simple Machines

This week, Grade 1s explored the different simple machines. At first, Grade 1s idea of machines are the usual big machines that we commonly use such as cars, machines with cranes, household appliances and others. They were all in awe to know that a simple zipper or a jar lid is a machine. To further feed their curiosity, Grade 1s worked in groups and explored the different simple machines. They searched on one machine of their choice, find out what it is, how it looks like and examples of them around us. They shared the information they collected through a poster and they explained their work to their classmates.

Then we began finding out what makes objects move. The whole class are familiar with gravity. Most of them know how gravity works and what benefits it gives us. Next week, we will conduct a series of experiments to introduce what other forces are present aside from gravity.