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Title

The inventors

Subject

Natural Science

Level / course

5th course Primary Education

Driving question or Challenge

  • Can we change the world with an invention?
  • Design, build and describe an invention which can change the world. 

Description

This resource will help the students to learn about the machines and the different kinds of simple machines, the history of inventions and how to create an invention. They will have some designed task to investigate about the topic and use all their learning in a design of the invention.  All the tasks are designed for them to work autonomously and to reflex about their own process of learning. Also along them we try to foster student's collaboration. 

Contents

  • Simple machines.
  • History of inventions.
  • Design the invention which can change the world. 

Timing

11 sessions of 50 minutes each approx. 

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This resource has got a CC BY-SA license and therefore it can be used, downloaded, modified and adapted without any problem, as long as you provide the name of the creator, and in case of being transformed and publishing a new version, it has to be done under the same license CC BY-SA as the original.

To give appropriate credit of the author of the resource, you can use the following text: 

This material is an adaptation of the original resource "The inventors" from CeDeC’s  EDIA project.

Next, we offer the source file (original resource) to modify the material with eXeLearning, free authoring tool which is available for any operating system. 

Credits

EDIA project. The inventors. Cedec
Author: Javier Ramos Sancha
NIPO (web): 847-19-122-0; ISSN (web): 2695-4192; DOI (web): 10.4438/2695-4192_PE_2019_847-19-122-0; NIPO (formato elp): 847-19-138-5; NIPO (formato ePub): 847-19-137-X; NIPO (formato en línea): 847-19-136-4; DOI (formato ePub): 10.4438/2695-4192_PEePub88_2021_847-19-137-X