Return to Mechania (Sherston)

Return to Mechania is an educational title published by Sherston Education, designed to teach pupils about simple machines in a variety of situations - covering moments and balancing, different shaped cams, gears and gear ratios, pulleys, pneumatics and linkages.

Long ago, the kingdom of Mechania was know throughout the world for its citizens’ skill with mechanisms and machines. But Mechania fell upon darker times and the citizens were banished. Now the time has come to return. The citizens will face many dangers along the way,and many puzzles must be solved. Can you help get their machines and mechanisms working again? The future is in the balance, and in your hands… Get your class’s cross-curricular problem-solving cogs turning with this exciting new software. http://shop.sherston.com/subject/other/mech-win-cdrm-1.html

Return to Mechania contains ’adventure’ and ’explore’ modes. In the ’explore’ mode pupils are given a machine and can interact with it as if it were real - hang weights on a balancing bar, place a cam on a rotating axle, mesh gears together, load pulleys with weights and connect plastic syringes for example. Each exploration has a stripped down mathematical diagram view to see the essentials of the scenario (forces, weights and lengths for example)

The ’adventure’ mode places each machine in a fantasy world of Mechania, where you must use your knowledge to help the Mechanians recover their kingdom!

• Published by Sherston Education
• Actionscript & MDM Zinc installers
• Two levels of difficulty