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- 3rd - 5th
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Students know the six simple machines and explain what they do and how they have changed the lives of humans. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 5th
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Students know the six simple machines and explain what they do and how they have changed the lives of humans. Full Review »
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- 2nd - 4th
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Students explore levers, screws, pulleys, wheels and axles, wedges and ramps as simple machines. Full Review »
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- 2nd
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Students investigate the function and uses of simple machines. They identify tools that are combined and used in everyday machines to simplify work. They explore the concepts of force and friction, conduct experiments and build simple machines. 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 - 8th
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Students engage in a lesson that explores the concept of simple machines. They view a powerpoint media presentation and then are introduced to adult volunteers for the lesson. Each volunteer is at a station with a simple machine and demonstrates its use. Full Review »
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- 5th
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Students identify six simple machines, including inclined plane, wedge, screw, lever, wheel and axle, and pulley, describe attributes of each machine, and design, in jigsaw groups, their own simple machines capable of moving brick. 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 »