- Roofs and pylons
- Buildings and bridges
- Flat and isometric working drawings
- Perspective drawing
- Wedges, wheels and gears
- Mechanisms that change the type of movement
- Design and make a model of a machine to crush grain
- The impact of technology on society and the environment
- Making new things out of old things
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Mini-pat design a house to use less energy
- Week 1
- The hidden cost of electricity
- Where does electricity come from? (30 minutes)
- How does electricity generation impact on the environment?(30 minutes)
- How can the negative impact of electricity generation be reduced? (60 minutes)
- Week 2
- Save energy by using less building materials
- Forces acting on materials (30 minutes)
- Reinforced concrete and plywood (30 minutes)
- Steel i-beams (60 minutes)
- Week 3
- Build a model of a house
- Build a model of a house: individual work (60 minutes)
- Team meeting on how to improve a house (30 minutes)
- Drawing your planned improvements to the house (30 minutes)
- Week 4
- Make improvements to your model house (60 minutes)
- Evaluate your improvements to the house (60 minutes)
- Week 5
- Present your model of a low-energy house
- Prepare your presentation (30 minutes)
- Presentations of all the teams to the class (90 minutes)
- Levers, linkages and gears
- Mechanical advantage calculations
- Drawing gear systems
- Bevel gears, bicycles and systems diagrams
- Investigate aspects of mining in south africa
- Mini-pat: a mine needs a lifting system
- Chapter 7
- Energy supply for the people
- Electrochemical cells and batterries
- Generating electricity for the nation
- Circuits with logic control
- Circuits with logic control