Lesson Planning
Teaching
- Understand how gears and gear ratios work.
- Identify appropriate gear combinations for specific terrains.
- Identify and record gear ratios.
Activities
- Explore gears noting how they help cyclists ride.
- Calculate gear ratios.
- Recommend gear combinations that relate to specific terrains.
Investigation - problem solving/fair testing
Investigate gears.
Vocabulary
Variables, accuracy, precision, gravity, friction, moving surfaces, mechanisms, gears, transfers