Games
Pulley Elevator
Materials
- Cardboards
- Bottle Cap
- Sausage Stick
- Thread
- Masking Tape
- Double Tape
- Scissors
- Straw
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Challanges
- You have to lift up a load from the base to a certain height using the idea of an elevator.
- How tall an elevator can you design and make it work?
- Challenge them to adjust the pulley system to see how quickly they can lift a certain weight.
- You can provide them with different-shaped objects and let them experiment balancing the load in the elevator.
- Can multiple pulleys be used in this, and how can it make the differences?
Questions to be asked
- How do the differences in weight change the system of pulley and its speed?
- If more weights are added, what changes need to be made?
- What differences can be seen when only one bottle cap is moved and when both the caps are moved?
- What should be done to move the elevator faster?