This week topic simple machines, is not a subject that I am familiar with learning at school. I can recall people advising me last year during placement to teach simple machines in the classroom as one of the many lessons I had to implement, but I was always scared to do so. I guess because I was not sure if I was teaching it right. Before reading this chapter I thought that friction was a whole separate unit, but in the text it is also a part of simple machines. I can see how it fits in as friction... read more
