Year 5 - Cogs and Gears

Date: 28th Mar 2023 @ 8:45pm

As part of our journey into forces, we have been learning about levers, pulleys and gears. In this lesson, pupils used lego pieces to create a 'drive train' of cogs and investigated what happened when they turned the handle. We learned that smaller cogs turned faster, but larger cogs created more power. Also, if a cog is turned clockwise, the next cog will always turn anticlockwise.