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La roue contre la friction

1998 1 min
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Dans la collection Une minute de science svp!, La Roue contre la friction explique, à l'aide d'archives, d'animation et d'une narration comment, grâce à l'invention du roulement à bille, on a réinventé la roue.

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La roue contre la friction

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Dans la collection Une minute de science svp!, La Roue contre la friction explique, à l'aide d'archives, d'animation et d'une narration comment, grâce à l'invention du roulement à bille, on a réinventé la roue.
  • director
    Claude Cloutier
  • animation
    Claude Cloutier
  • producer
    Thérèse Descary
  • associate producer
    Marc Bertrand
  • None
    Claude Cloutier
    Sylvain Charbonneau
    Denis Larochelle
  • editing
    José Heppell
  • narration
    Benoit Rousseau
  • music
    Denis Larochelle

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Education

Ages 6 to 11
Teacher asks students to: - organize a science fair or design a technical brochure about the wheel: • history of the wheel (solid roller, three-board, stone, semi-solid, spoked); • applications of the wheel (waterwheel, steam engine); • the wheel in transportation (chariot, stagecoach, hansom cab, farm machines, bicycle, automobile); • geared wheels (in bicycles, doorknobs, cranes, timepieces).
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