Papercraft Automata for Beginners

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Papercraft Automata for Beginners

Free workshop for teachers / preservice teachers

By UniSQ Library Makerspace

When and where

Date and time

Thursday, August 10 · 4 - 5:30pm AEST

Location

USQ Library Room R104 USQ Library Makerspace Darling Heights, QLD 4350 Australia

About this event

  • 1 hour 30 minutes
  • Mobile eTicket

Teachers design and construct working papercraft automata suitable for the classroom with classroom ready resources. At the end of the session teachers will have completed a working automaton as a demonstration piece with ideas for explicitly teaching the same.

Curriculum Links

1. AC9S4U03 identify how forces can be exerted by one object on another and investigate the effect of frictional, gravitational and magnetic forces on the motion of objects.

2. Technologies context: Engineering principles and systems; Materials and technologies specialisations AC9TDE4K02 describe how forces and the properties of materials affect function in a product or system Design project: Automata - ABOVE | The Australian Curriculum (Version 8.4) Select appropriate materials, components, tools, equipment and techniques and apply safe procedures to make designed solutions (ACTDEP026)

3. AC9M5SP01 connect objects to their nets and build objects from their nets using spatial and geometric reasoning

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