Teachers design and construct working papercraft automata suitable for the classroom with classroom ready resources. At the end of the session teachers will have completed a working automaton as a demonstration piece with ideas for explicitly teaching the same.
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1. AC9S4U03 identify how forces can be exerted by one object on another and investigate the effect of frictional, gravitational and magnetic forces on the motion of objects.
2. Technologies context: Engineering principles and systems; Materials and technologies specialisations AC9TDE4K02 describe how forces and the properties of materials affect function in a product or system Design project: Automata - ABOVE | The Australian Curriculum (Version 8.4) Select appropriate materials, components, tools, equipment and techniques and apply safe procedures to make designed solutions (ACTDEP026).
3. AC9M5SP01 connect objects to their nets and build objects from their nets using spatial and geometric reasoning.