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Students, by reading, analyzing, and evaluating the wolf's use of simple machines in "The 3 Pigs and the Scientific Wolf" by Mary Fetzer, design and justify their own machine to help the wolf catch those pigs. Full Review »
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- 3rd
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Students explore how simple machines can affect their health and lifestyle. In addition, students use their knowledge of simple machines to build a unique machine. 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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- 3rd - 5th
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Students examine what simple machines are, how they work, and how they have changed our lives. They conduct research on inventors and inventions, demonstrate simple machines using body parts, and create a class book about inventors. 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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- 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 - 7th
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Students view an illustration of a Rube Goldberg machine. In groups, they identify the parts of the machine and design a system to carry seeds to a high perched feeder in a tree. They work together to design and build their simple machine and draw a picture of it. They present their idea to the class. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students investigate simple machines. They calculate the work done by simple machines and compare the force or direction of force applied. They calculate mechanical advantage and efficiency of simple machines and identify compound machines. They complete acdtivities to demonstrate their understanding. Full Review »
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