Wave your flag high! The TeacherGeek Flag Waver Activity is an excellent introduction to TeacherGeek construction techniques and components. By combining gears, pulleys and cams, you change rotary motion into linear motion to raise, lower and wave flags by simply turning a crank. Once you have experienced the TeacherGeek building system, you can create anything with TeacherGeek components. You will find the Flag Waver Construction Guide is easy to follow, fun and informative.

When working with ages 10 and up on this Activity, start with the Build Guide.

     Build Guide     

Create a prototype Flag Waver using the Build Guide. This will be a great design to get you started. You’ll create your own amazing designs once the prototype is complete.

• Basic Build Guide: PDF

Once you complete the Build Guide, your Flag Waver is ready! At the end of the Build Guide you will have the skills to make your own version. How will you make it different? Download the Engineering Notebook to help you on this journey. Find this in Optional Resources below.

     Optional Resources     

Engineering Notebook

Available at two different learning levels, the TeacherGeek Engineering Notebook is designed to help students cycle through the Design & Engineering Process and help them innovate and invent new designs. Use an Engineering Notebook page for each iteration of the design. It is recommended that extra pages are printed and on-hand during activities.

• Simple Engineering Notebook: PDF
• Engineering Notebook: PDF

What tools will you need to do this activity?

Sets of tools can be found here.
 

Make your Flag Waver even better by incorporating recycling bin material.

What's in the Flag Waver Activity?

This is an educational product and not a toy. It is intended for use by ages 9 and above with adult supervision.