How Wheels Came To Be
2/22/2019
This week we explored the history of wheels. We talked about what the world would be like without wheels and how ancient peoples didn't always have wheels. We looked though non-fiction books to find pictures of people moving things with horses, sleighs, and on their backs. We learned that before wheels when people wanted to move really really heavy things, like building stones, they used special types of sleds called sledges to drag the rock. Over the week we followed the development of wheels from sledges to the addition of rollers to help move the sledges more easily, and then the transition of making rollers into wheels. We explored this history in many ways, but most excitedly we experienced and compared each of these methods with a laundry basket and our friends as weights. What the Explores told me they learned was that dragging the sled took the most pullers (6 students) and was the slowest. Using rollers was much easier (only 2 student pullers), but not any faster since you had to move the rollers. Wheels were the fastest and took the least amount of effort (1 student could pull 2 kids). Physically exploring the history of wheels with our own selves was engaging and a meaningful way to teach social studies, physics, and history to children who many would think too young to understand these concepts. Comments are closed.
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