Conveyor
SKU: 102060
Description
You can’t take your kids on a field trip to a factory to teach them about mechanics and moving parts, but you can bring the conveyor belt into your classroom! The Conveyor is a kid-powered kinetic machine that lets them crank the handle and see the results in real-time. As they turn the handle, kids will see how different shaped objects move along the belt, some rolling in place and others gliding along.
Turning the handle one way moves the belt to the right, turning it the other way sends it to the left. This hands-on experience is perfect for sparking curiosity about mechanics and systems thinking! Kids will love experimenting with different materials and learning about cause and effect through play.
Great for your Discovery Center, Makerspace, Block Area or STEM lab, the Conveyor is 48 inches long, 24 inches wide and 12 inches tall when assembled. It’s a fun way to introduce motion and engineering concepts.
And by placing a bucket at the end or connecting two Conveyors back to back, kids can create objective-driven challenges. Get ready for hours of fun and learning with this awesome tool! Suitable for ages 2 and up.
Ideas & Concepts
- Use the Conveyor to move balls, blocks, and even a classmate! (Okay, yes, we’re joking and don’t recommend that children ride on it, but if they do, it is strong enough to hold them! We know - we’ve tried it!)
- Move small toys along the belt until they drop into a basket. Think of how fun clean-up will be!
- Use as a part of a ramp system.
- Combine with other large materials such as laundry baskets, jump ropes, playground balls, buckets, and pulleys to design and construct an enormous chain reaction machine.
- The physical foundational concept of the Conveyor is the translation of motion from circular hand cranking to linear belt movement. How does the energy put into cranking the handle make the belt move?
- Because a Little Bug Went Kachoo by Rosetta Stone (really Dr. Suess)
- What Is A Pulley? by Lloyd G. Douglas
- Now and Ben: The Modern Inventions of Benjamin Franklin by Gene Barretta
- Neo Leo: The Ageless Ideas of Leonardo da Vinci by Gene Barretta
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