Description
Students will cut & strip wire, crimp on pins and sockets, and assemble connectors just like those used on Caterpillar heavy machinery across the world.
Recommended age range: Grades 4-12
Approximate activity duration: 1 hour
Each kit contains materials for 30 students.
In this activity, students prepare wiring materials and components typically used on heavy equipment for assembly into a keychain or bracelet loop. The same operations performed in this activity are used to create wiring harnesses for some of the largest offroad vehicles in the world.
Curriculum linkages to explore:
- Safety
- Motor skills
- Language arts: comprehension, vocabulary development, fluency
- Math: measurement, unit conversions, shape and space relations, number sense and relation, fractions and decimals, geometry, patterns and relations
- Science: matter and energy, mechanical systems, structures and forces
- High school Career and Technology Studies, Special Projects
