Alicia's Speech

Simple Machines. When you think of Simple Machines you think of Wheels and axles, Pulleys e.t.c. We find that most of the attention is brought mainly on the outside features. We hardly ever tend to at least wonder how it works and how it makes our lives easier.Malo lelei, Talofa Lava and greetings to you all. Today I will be talking about the Wheel and Axle.

Firstly, Wheels and Axles are not only one of the most Simple Machines created, but it is also one of the most easy to make, machines. The magical creator of this machine is Robert Wonders. In 3500 B.C, in Mesopotamia his reason to making this was because decades before its invention, humans were very limited into how many things they could take when they would travel over the land. With the Wheel and Axles help, they were now able to bring unlimited belongings with them even if their destination was less than ten minutes away.

Soon after the Wheel and Axle was invented, people started making wagon wheels in Central Asia. Even after the Axle was invented, it made our daily lives even more convenient! Pottery wheels were the first wheels invented in Sumeria around the 4000 B.C.

The Wheel and Axle was often associated with early humans rather named, ‘cavemen’.

If they were in the need of carrying big slabs of rock to build a fort, or blocks of wood to make a fire, they would need some sort of help taking them home, right? We all know that it would be a struggle taking everything home without some sort of gadget. Luckily, with the help of Wheels and Axles, they’d have no struggle at all bringing them home. The oldest wooden Wheel and Axle found was in 2002 at Ljubljana Marshes, the capital of Slovenia.

Now that I have explained a part of Simple Machines, I hope this has expanded your learning in the Wheel and Axle. Wheels and Axles are very important things to learn during your time at school and so are others. Thank you for listening to my speech and I hope you have enjoyed listening to it as much as I enjoyed reading it.

Simple Machines Everywhere!!! 🔨🔧🔨

Today Glen Innes School held a Simple Machine Expo. Room 8’s topic was to use the Wheel and Axle and the Pulley to create a Simple Toy. Just after Lunchtime we all headed to the hall to observe the toys created. In my opinion, my favourite one was Room 7’s Ferris Wheel. It was very easy to identify the fact that they used the Wheel and Axle and it moved like a dream. I really enjoyed the Expo and I wonder if they will have another one but on a different topic.

My Storyboard: My Simple Machine

My storyboard is about how I felt about making my simple machine. This was easy to make and I hope to make another comic strip but with a different topic.

Creating my Simple Machine

Over the weekend I was busy making my simple machine. Room 8 could either pick to make a toy from a Pulley or a Wheel and Axle. I chose to use a Wheel and Axle. My simple machine is supposed to be a car but it does not roll. It contains bottle caps, jar caps, straws and a pencil. The actual car shape was formed with cardboard. A picture from google images inspired me to make this car. The reason why I made this toy was because it connects to our topic study which is simple machines. This was not too hard to create and it was actually quite fun. Overall I think making this toy has expanded my learning for our topic study especially in Wheel and Axles.