Grinding Gears

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You will Need:

• Plastic bottle caps
• Lollipop sticks
• Glue
• Pipe cleaners, or something that you can insert under the bottle caps,
• Cardboard box (optional)

What to Do:

1. Glue lollipop sticks evenly spaced,around the outside of each bottle cap.
2. Create a handle for each gear, get creative with what you have around the house!
3. Place your gears on a flat surface ensuring that they are spaced in a way that allows the lollipop sticks to interlock.
4. Glue down your pipe cleaners, or something to place each gear on.
5. Set up your gears and get moving!

How does it work?

By turning one gear, you are creating kinetic energy – energy that causes movement. The type of energy you are using to move all of the gears in mechanical energy, putting objects in motion. Well done!

Show us your gears in action! Send a photo or short video of your gears in action to askanambassador@canterbury.ac.uk or tag us on Twitter: @STEMHUB_SE Instagram: @thestemhub

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