Dr Seuss Characters

As part of our learning about forces and movement we have been exploring different levers. This week, we made Dr Seuss characters. We used our knowledge about levers to make moving parts using split pins.

We know that the split pin acts as the lever and we use a push or pull force to make the part on the Dr Seuss character move.

It was a pretty big challenge. First, we had to plan our creations - we had to sketch all of the body parts like puzzle pieces onto a big sheet of card. We made a few mistakes but that's ok because we know that making mistakes is how we learn. It was pretty tricky get the size of the parts right so they would all fit together. Then, we had to colour and cut (very carefully) all the puzzle pieces. Lastly, we joined the pieces together with split pins.

Check out the amazing creations...