Skills
- Understand/demonstrate how a push is transferred
- Know examples of hydraulics in action
- Understand/demonstrate the difference water/air make
- How to fill a syringe and pipe with water
- Consider uses of hydraulics in DT projects
Equipment
- Pairs of syringes with connecting pipe (3 boxes with 40+ pairs per box – comfortably enough for 1 per child in the year group or more if working on a project in groups)
- Pictures of hydraulics in use
- Cups of water for filling
How to fill system
- Fill one syringe
- Connect tube
- Push syringe to fill the tube
- Put tube in water and pull to fill the syringe and tube
- Push the other syringe fully down and connect