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Students work in small groups and construct a simple machine known as a pulley. 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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- 3rd
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Students research simple machines and their uses. They, in groups, create simple machines that can lift heavy loads, facilitate moving objects, etc. 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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- 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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- 4th - 5th
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Students observe and analyze how pulleys work and how a double pulley can make work easier. In small groups they use a fixed pulley system and a double pulley system and draw a picture of how their pulley system functions. Students then observe a demonstration of a student being lifted in a chair. Full Review »
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- 5th
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Students study how simple machines can help us alter forces and discuss the term mechanical advantage. They then identify dysfunctional simple machines and discuss in groups how the dysfunctions will decrease the effectiveness of each. Full Review »
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- 6th
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Students use a simple pulley device to demonstrate the relationship between work, force, and distance. They then have a discussion using Excel-generated graphs based on the data the students collected to help illustrate the concepts. Full Review »
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