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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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- 3rd - 5th
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Students use everyday materials (milk cartons, water bottles, pencils, straws, candy) to build a small-scale transportation device that incorporates the wheel and axle and the lever. They race their carts/trucks, measure distance, time and weight, and calculate speed. Full Review »
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- Kindergarten - 2nd
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Students explore, observe and predict the concepts of motion. They conduct experiments with balloons, spin tops, wheels, axles and marbles to recognize that variables affect motion. Full Review »
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- Kindergarten
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Students examine the letter combination -qu, read two new sight words, and participate in a simple machine activity. They discuss the sound of -qu and add a page to their alphabet book, read the sight words at and they, and rotate through two activities that focus on the simple machines of the wheel and axle. Full Review »
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- 5th
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Students read selected pages from their science text and explain forces affected by wheels and axles. They read and discover that gears transfer forces and that gear combinations relate to compound machines. Full Review »
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- 5th
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Students construct a wheel and axle model using a Lego Dacta set. They read and discuss informational text from the book "It's Science! Machines We Use," and in small groups create a simple machine using Legos. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 4th
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Stuents explore wheels and axles and how they maka machine move. After a teacher demonstration, students construct a wheel and axle. Students explore the circumference of the wheel. They compare the wheel sizes, speed, distance, and load levels. Full Review »
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- 4th
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Students study everyday examples of simple machines. They examine how the combination of a wheel and axle works more efficiently than either in isolation. In a demonstration lesson, they see how a spring scale shows a force pulling down on an object. Finally, they determine how wheels and axles reduce the force needed to work by reducing the amount of friction. Full Review »
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- 3rd
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Students construct models to show why the system of the wheel and axle was invented. They create a KWL about the system of the wheel and axle and record in their journals how the wheel and axle work together as a system. They write in their own words the definition of a system. Full Review »
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- 4th
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Students yo-yo. They are told that yo-yos employ the wheel and axle, one of the simple machines. Students are told that an acronym for remembering the six simple machines is: SLIPWAWS. They are given a lesson in how to yo-yo, students then practice yo-yoing. Full Review »
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