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Machines

This quiz addresses part of the requirements of the National Curriculum KS1 Design and Technology for children aged 5 and 6 in years 1 and 2. Specifically it looks at some simple machines and how they work. It is one of 10 quizzes to help you with designing and making useful things, and finding out about how things are made.

There are machines everywhere, and they do lots of different jobs. The computer or smart-phone you are using is a machine. There are machines in our homes and our places of work. In our houses they help to do the washing and the cleaning. There are machines in factories to help make things. Robots are machines. Engineers design, build and look after machines. How many of these quiz questions about machines can you answer?

1 .
Connor’s Mum works in a factory. She helps to design and build machines. Connor’s Mum is an ________.
Nurse
Doctor
Teacher
Engineer
What do you want to be when you grow up?
2 .
What machine helps to keep clothes clean?
A cooker
A washing machine
A food mixer
A fridge
How does a washing machine work?
3 .
Which one of these machines is used to clean the carpets in a house?
A washing machine
A hair dryer
A vacuum cleaner
A hedge trimmer
Vacuum cleaners are often called hoovers
4 .
What is needed to make both washing machines and vacuum cleaners work?
Gas
Steam
Water
Electricity
Lots of machines use electricity
5 .
Sunil’s Mum is painting a door. The lid of the tin of paint is stuck on. Sunil’s Mum gets a screwdriver. She uses the screwdriver to prise the lid off the tin of paint. Sunil’s Mum has been using a _____.
Knife
Lever
Spoon
Wheel
What else might you open with a lever?
6 .
Freddie is building a toy car. He makes the body. Then he adds wheels. Why does he add wheels?
So it moves more easily
So it looks good
So it can fly
So it looks finished
Lots of machines have wheels so they can move more easily
7 .
Freddie puts the wheels on to axles. What do the axles do?
Stop the wheels moving
Let the wheels go round
Make the car lighter
Make electricity
The axles also connect the wheels to the body of the car
8 .
Emma is on her bike. When she has to go up a hill she changes ____.
Gear
Her shoes
The wheel
Her clothes
Lots of machines, like bikes and cars, have gears so they can go at different speeds and work harder
9 .
Sam is in a big shop with his mum. They want to go up to the second floor. They use a machine to go up to the second floor. What machine do they use?
A corridor
A flight of stairs
An escalator
A hall
Lifts are also machines
10 .
Which one of these parts of a car is a machine?
The windscreen
The seats
The engine
The boot
Most cars have petrol or diesel engines
Author:  David Bland
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