Hello everybody! For our fourth week in technology class, we have been learning about levers and how they work. Each lever has three parts, an effort, a load and a fulcrum. You can arrange these parts differently, and that what creates different types of levers. We have been learning about class three levers (effort is in the middle). Class three levers are actually pretty weak, but are used in so many things today. Fishing poles, baseball bats, even your own arm is a class three lever! To experiment with this topic, we made mini catapults out of popsicle sticks, because they too are third class levers. Overall, I thought it was a fun project and I look forward to doing more stuff like this in the future.