Lesson 2: Graphic expression

Go to the following link
Technical drawing
You will find a presentation about Technical drawing tools / Materials.
Click Start to begin the test:
Type in a message the rigth answer to each question and send me an email with them (Formulario de contacto)

Technologies timeline

Connect to this page in the internet:

http://www.datesandevents.org/events-timelines/12-technology-timeline.htm
Answer these questions:

• When did they invent the first known calculator?
• Where did they invent the suspension bridges?
• Who invented the microscope? When?
• Vaccunation was a breaktrouh in medicine. When was it invented? Who did it?
• When was electric motor invented?
• In which two centuries have more inventions happened?

Electricity

Connect to this link. Read the article and answer

• What is electricity?
• What do we mean when we say that electricity is an energy carrier?
• Give several examples on how electricity has changed our lifes

Electricity for kids 

Mechanisms in real life

You have studied 3 general kind of mechanisms (simple, trnsmission and transforming) and several cases of each one (such as lever, pulley, gears). Find one example of these (i.e. of the lever) in the real life and add a comment about what it is used for and where you found it

Lesson 4: Machines : Identify mechanisms

Go to the following link: 

http://www.technologystudent.com/cams/mecstr1.htm 

Print and complete the exercise, identifying the mechanisms or either write the answers in "Formulario de contacto" and send them (don´t forget your name)

Machines: Wikipedia

Wikipedia: Machine
Visit the Wikipedia page, read the article and answer:

1. What is a machine
2. Which types of energy can a machine use?
3. Where does the word machine come from?
4. List the main types of machines
5. What was the ancient requirement to classify as a machine?
6. Explain what an "automata" is?