Lesson Plan
Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Introduction to Functions

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Input numbers into the function machine and explore independent and dependent variables.
Activity
Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Linear Function Machine

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An interactive "machine" allows you to see first hand how a function works. Enter several input values, receive the output values, and determine the algebraic function.
Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Splash, Pop, Fizz: Rube Goldberg Machines

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Refreshed with an understanding of the six simple machines; screw, wedge, pully, incline plane, wheel and axle, and lever, student groups receive materials and an allotted amount of time to act as mechanical engineers to design and...
Lesson Plan
Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 8.f Function Rules

For Teachers 8th Standards
Four tables showing different types of input and output values are presented and students are asked to describe function rules for them and fill in any missing values. Aligns with 8.F.A.1.
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Function Machine

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
During this activity, eighth grade students will interpret the perimeter of a train of triangles, squares, trapezoids, or hexagons as a function (for each input, there will be exactly one output). Students will represent their data in a...
Interactive
Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Linear Function Machine

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Students investigate linear relationships. The resource includes the activity and instructor resources.
Lesson Plan
Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: More Complicated Functions: Intro Linear Functions

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
For this lesson, students learn about linear functions and how they can be represented as rules and data tables. Includes a worksheet with exploration questions to accompany an interactive Linear Function Machine. The lesson plan is...
Lesson Plan
Google

Google for Education: Machine Testing

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students test the functionality of a mysterious new machine whose operations are described to the class, but cannot be opened up for further investigation. Students come up with a testing strategy for this machine, test it according to...
Interactive
Museum of Science

Museum of Science (Boston): Leonardo's Mysterious Machines

For Students 3rd - 8th
A game that showcases the inventive genius of Leonardo da Vinci, who made drawings of helicopters, planes, and tanks long before these machines ever became modern-era realities. Have fun learning about Leonardo's many ideas while you...
Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: The Structure and Function of Globular Proteins

For Students 9th - 10th
The structure of a machine's parts in relation to one another and the proper functioning of the machine itself, applies not just to the machines is, but also to the ones at work inside our bodies. These molecular machines, called...
Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs: Creating Numerical Patterns With Rules: Bianca Functions in the Wild

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this Cyberchase video, Bianca and her friend go camping and soon realize that Bianca has left the food at home. They find a vending machine in the woods, but it doesn't dispense the food that corresponds with the numbers Bianca...
Activity
Museum of Science

The Museum of Science: Gadget Anatomy

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from The Museum of Science presents some compound machines and asks students to identify which simple machines they are composed of. Students provide their answer and receive immediate feedback.
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Inspecting and Machining a Disc Brake Rotor

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The proper inspection machining or refinishing of disc brake rotors ensures quality brake repairs with little to no opportunity for returns for customer complaints. This lesson will teach inspection, measuring and machining techniques...
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Inspecting and Machining a Disc Brake Rotor

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The proper inspection machining or refinishing of disc brake rotors ensures quality brake repairs with little to no opportunity for returns for customer complaints. This instructional activity will teach inspection, measuring and...
Online Course
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Open Course Ware: Mind and Machines

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Focusing a study on the philosophy of mind, examine this thorough collection of resources to enhance discussions.
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: How to Make Something Simple, Hard

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students will have completed a unit of forces and motion prior to the current unit of study on simple machines (lever, inclined plane, screw, wedge, pulley, wheel and axle). Students will review the functions and examples of simple...
Lesson Plan
Museum of Science

The Museum of Science: Sketch Gadget Anatomy

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The Museum of Science provides this site that shows the activity in which students sketch all the elements of a compound machine describing each component's function. Also includes an extension activity for homework.
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Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Relation Machine

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A downloadable activity that allows students to practice solving equations by using the "relation machine." Solve for y and determine if the relation is a function for the x value.
Interactive
Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Whole Number Cruncher

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Put a number, the input, in the Whole Number Cruncher. See if you can discover the rule that gives you the result, the output. Directions are just a click away.
Interactive
California Academy of Sciences

California Academy of Sciences: Skulls

For Students 9th - 10th
A skull is an object of sculptural beauty, a machine designed by evolution, a blueprint of an animal's lifestyle, and a protective enclosure for the brain and sensory organs. These are all responses given by scientists on this visually...
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Automotive Brake Service

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The proper inspection machining or refinishing of brake drums ensures quality brake repairs with little to no opportunity for returns for customer complaints. This lesson will teach inspection, measuring and machining techniques and...
Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Muscles, Muscles Everywhere

For Teachers 4th - 7th
This activity helps students learn about the three different types of muscles and how outer space affects astronauts' muscles. They will discover how important it is for astronauts to get adequate exercise both on Earth and in outer...
Handout
Learn Engineering

Learn Engineering: How Does an Induction Motor Work?

For Students 11th - 12th
An article and video about the most commonly used electrical machine called an induction motor. Learn about the parts of the motors that allow the motor to function. [4:43]
Handout
Learn Engineering

Learn Engineering: Working of Single Phase Induction Motors

For Students 11th - 12th
A video and article giving information about how single phase induction motors function and what parts they contain. The accompanying article explains the concepts further using detailed illustrations. [4:06]

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