Whybricks

Whybricks is an educational construction set that helps bring physical science concepts to life for both students and teachers.

Intentionally flexible, the free Whybricks lessons can be delivered in any order to help introduce concepts, solidify understanding, or explore a particular topic further.

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It's time to put on your engineer hat! In the lesson 'Why don't you float away when you jump?' students are introduced to the concept of gravity and are challenged to build a Whybricks 'hailstone' that uses air resistance to fall more slowly.

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Why do rubber bands snap back? This Whybricks investigation is all about scientific inquiry, getting students to plan and carry out investigations exploring potential and kinetic energy as well as Newton’s second law (F=ma) and includes the fun catapult build!

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Did you know that mass is not the same as weight? A lot of the time, the more mass an object has, the more it weighs. However, mass and weight are not the same thing. Mass is the amount of matter an object has. The amount of matter will be the same wherever in the universe the object is.
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This project’s core concept is gravity. While gravity feels intuitively obvious at a basic level, the topic of gravity is one of the most complex studied by physics. Students begin their exploration at the foundational level of understanding gravity as the force that ‘makes things fall down’. They then explore the idea of gravitational acceleration and demonstrate that everything on Earth is subject to the same rate of gravitational acceleration.

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Why do rubber bands snap back? This investigation is all about scientific inquiry, getting students to plan and carry out investigations exploring potential and kinetic energy as well as Newton’s second law (F=ma). Students take true agency over their learning as they design and conduct an experiment of their choosing to investigate an area related to the core ‘why’ phenomenon.

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The Whybricks project "Why do objects slow down?" is centred on Newton’s three laws of motion. Students first dive deep into Newton’s first law of motion (inertia). A basic introduction to Newton’s second law of motion (F=ma) follows as students observe the result increasing force has on motion. Finally, students observe Newton’s third law of motion (for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction).

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Why is riding a bicycle faster than running? In this Whybricks investigation, students explore the fundamentals of how gears work, including mated gears of different sizes. They then work through the engineering design process as they iterate and test a design that utilises gears to change the speed, the size, or the direction of an input force to perform a task of their choosing.

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Why don't bridges collapse in the middle? This project investigates two forces that make bridges useful to people: normal force and tension. Students first investigate how normal force allows a bridge to support a load. They then observe the additional challenges involved with making a longer bridge. Students explore how tension is used with upward support beams in bridges to create a strong bridge. An optional extra challenge allows students to test the concept in practice, substituting in string for the sturdier Whybricks parts and observing the results.

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Whybricks is an educational construction set that helps bring physical science concepts to life for both students and teachers.
Intentionally flexible, the free Whybricks lessons can be delivered in any order to help introduce concepts, solidify understanding, or explore a particular topic further.

Learn more about Whybricks at https://whybricks.com/