We began by looking at designers who have designed levers and sliders, for example, Osborn Dorsey who designed the door handle and George J Capewell who designed the windscreen wipers.
We explored some levers and sliders and thought about the mechanisms.
Miss Markham showed us two fantastic examples of a lever and a slider that Mrs Worsley our school DT leader made:
Then, we practised making a range of levers and sliders:
Designing, making and evaluating our slider and levers: