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Students explore simple machines as a way of helping the principle with a hurt foot manuever his way around the campus. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students explore simple machines through a Webquest with Internet resources provided for research of simple machines. They create a report, with pictures, in Word, and finally, invent their own simple machine for presentation. Full Review »
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- 1st - 5th
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Students use iPhoto to create a class book about simple machines. They, in groups, identify and define the function of simple machines, take pictures of simple machines in use at their school sites, add text and compile them into books. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students identify simple machines and how they make work much simpler. They watch videos, and participate in hands-on activities. Full Review »
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- 4th - 8th
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Students examine six simple machines and investigate who Rube Goldberg is. They explore various websites, write an article, write ten interesting facts about Rube Goldberg, and design and construct a simple machine. Full Review »
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- 4th
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Students participate in activities to examine how simple machines help build things. They identify the six types of simple machines. They discover how simple machines where use historically to build pyramids and how they are still used in building skyscrapers today. Full Review »
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- 6th - 9th
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Students explore the ins and outs of simple machines. They discover the various roles of simple machines, who uses them, where they can be found and how they actually work. Students create a compound machine using simple machines. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 5th
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Students investigate six types of simple machines. They identify the six types of simple machines, watch a PowerPoint presentation, calculate the design for a pyramid and create a scaled drawing of a pyramid on graph paper, and evaluate and select a construction site. Full Review »
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- 3rd
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Students study six simple machines while working in expert groups. They use the information from the research to decide which simple machine the Little's could use to move a package. They demonstrate how their simple works in a whole class setting. Full Review »
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- 5th - 8th
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Students list and describe the six simple machines. They create a Thinking Map and outline using Kidspiration and create a paper on the importance of simple machines using Microsoft Word. Full Review »