PBS
Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Heavy Lifting
This challenge is to design and build a crane and determine how heavy a load it can lift.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Levers That Lift
This lesson introduces students to three of the six simple machines used by many engineers: the lever, the pulley, and the wheel-and-axle. In general, engineers use the lever to magnify the force applied to an object, the pulley to lift...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Gears: Lift It Up!
In this activity, students learn about the trade-off between speed and torque when designing gear ratios. The activity setup includes a LEGO pulley system with two independent gear sets and motors that spin two pulleys. Each pulley has...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Give Yourself a Lift: Lightening the Load With Pulleys
Before the Industrial Age, people relied on muscle power for moving and lifting heavy objects. Here's a project that shows you how you can use your head to make heavy lifting easier on your muscles - and your back.
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PBS
Pbs Kids: Design Squad Challenge: Heavy Lifting (Pdf) [Pdf]
Hands-on challenge to build a cardboard crane for a moon mission and see how heavy a load it can lift. Provides full list of materials with ideas on how to build, test, evaluate, and redesign it if necessary. Activity focuses on the...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Just Plane Simple
This lesson introduces students to three of the six simple machines used by many engineers. These machines include the inclined plane, the wedge and the screw. In general, engineers use the inclined plane to lift heavy loads, the wedge...
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Rescue Mission, Design Experiment
Design and build a hook that can be used to grab and lift canisters floating in water. Test the design and make revisions as needed.
PBS
Pbs: Nova: Lever an Obelisk
Help lift this Obelisk monument by designing a lever to do the job as efficiently as possible.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Secrets of Lost Empires Ii: Lever an Obelisk
Utilize an understanding of how a lever works to lift an obelisk, using as few of the weights and support stones as possible in this online interactive activity.
Other
Colts Neck Township Schools: Hands on Technology: Marvelous Machines: Pulleys 2
Student handout for conducting an experiment in using one pulley or two pulleys to lift a load.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Secrets of Lost Empires I Obelisk
Investigate how levers can be used to lift objects and discover how the position of the fulcrum affects the force and the distance of the load lifted.
Walter Fendt
Walter Fendt: Sistema De Poleas
This site is an interactive applet using the principles of a pulley system. The number of pulleys can be varied as well as the load lifted