JOE:'Today's Dengineer is nine-year-old Ocean from Essex.'
OCEAN:I need help from the Dengineers because I love to design and make marble runs and rollercoasters but I don't have the space to do it.
TONY:You need a place to design 'cause you're a budding rollercoaster designer so you want to be able to test out ideas and sketch things. So another idea that we've had is the fact that you could have a huge marble run - like an entire wall of your den could be a marble run. How does that sound?
OCEAN:Really amazing.
TONY:Oh wow.
JOE:'Tony and Satwinder have designed a den that'll capture the feeling 'of a marble on the move.'
LAUREN:'Inside the den there'll be a desk 'where Ocean can let his imagination run wild 'and a giant magnetic, marble run wall 'where he can bring his ideas to life.'
JOE:'The feature window is shaped like a marble 'and also doubles up as a seat where Ocean can relax.' 'The den is really taking shape and everyone is getting stuck in.'
LAUREN:'Tony and Satwinder are making a huge marble run out of steel 'that Ocean can adjust and play with 'so I'm going to find out how it works.'
SATWINDER:What's beautiful about this steel is it's magnetic - it's got north property. So what that means is, this is south property and…
LAUREN:North attracts south.
SATWINDER:Exactly so this is like–
LAUREN:Magnets.
SATWINDER:Magnets. So they come together and they connect so it's kind of like invisible glue which is how a magnet works.
LAUREN:'The two ends of a magnet are called poles - 'north pole and south pole. 'Both of them have a magnetic charge. 'Magnets are attracted to their opposite poles, so north attracts south, 'and the same poles repel each other - they push each other away.'
Presenters Lauren Layfield and Joe Tracini and The Dengineers design a den for Ocean from Essex where he can work on his roller-coaster and marble-run ideas.
They investigate one of the main features of the den, a huge magnetic marble-run wall.
They demonstrate how the steel wall is magnetic and has north properties which attracts magnets with south properties.
This means they come together and connect, like invisible glue.
Teacher Notes
This could be used to introduce the process of design, and as a prompt for class discussion and learning in areas such as initial research, designing and making a structure.
Pupils could investigate how magnets work and look at different ways in which magnets could be utilised within a design.
Curriculum Notes
This clip will be relevant for teaching Design and Technology at KS2 in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland and 1st and 2nd level in Scotland.
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