Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Cogs

We started today's science lesson by looking at cogs in everyday objects (bike, can opener) and then at this nifty mixer that belongs to Mrs. Mom that uses cogs to work:

 Then, we used bottle caps and nails to make a system of cogs:

 We were able to observe, for example, that neighboring cogs go in opposite directions:
 Last, we drew a set of cogs in our science notebook:

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