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Strategies to Overcome Gender Bias in the Machine Shop: Knurling

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students participate in putting a straight knurl on a piece of steel.
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Saturday Fun Machine

For Teachers 1st
First graders examine and discuss what they like to do in their leisure time. They identify various activities, compare them to other students' activities, and draw a picture of their favorite things to do on a Saturday.
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Time Machine: Drive for the American Dream

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students view a documentary on automobiles. Americans have always been in love with automobiles. They are a definition of character, and a representation of social status. After viewing, students discuss what they saw and create an...
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Square Machine

For Teachers K
Students draw robots using square shapes.
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Science NetLinks: The Bicycle as a System

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners explore systems by examining the systems that make a bicycle work. They appreciate how the different systems of a bicycle relate to each other, and identify the properties of each subsystem.
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The Machine That Changed the World

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students read about the first computer and discuss it.
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Human Fax Machines

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders discover how to communicate effectively by giving oral directions to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. They work with a partner and give oral directions for block building.
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Three Classes of Levers

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders research the three classes of levers and create a Power Point presentation showcasing the fulcrum, effort arm, and resistance arm in each class. They then write a paper explaining real life applications of the levers.
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Introduction to Machine Piecing

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students discover how to use the rotary cutter, cutting mat, and ruler to make quilt blocks. They make a 4-patch quilt block and write a paper on their first memories of a quilt. They determine how to sew a 1/4" seam and identify bed...
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Technological Developments

For Teachers 1st
First graders discuss household tasks, and identify differences between how things are done now, and how they were done when their parents and grandparents were little. Students then predict how tasks will change in future, and visit...
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Great Inventions

For Students Pre-K - Higher Ed
In this creative thinking activity, students identify and list nine of the best and most important inventions ever created. Then they list nine of the not so good inventions. Finally, students list three of their personal favorites.
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Ignition Systems

For Students 9th - 12th
In this technology worksheet, students find the words in the puzzle and then this could be extended to finding the definitions in relation to ignition systems.
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Little House in the Big Woods Chapter 12- The Wonderful Machine

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this language arts worksheet, students read and learn 4 new vocabulary words and their meanings from Chapter 12 of Little House in the Big Woods. There are no questions to answer on the page.
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Rube Goldberg

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Pupils study Rube Goldberg machines. In this architecture lesson, students build a Rube Goldberg machine.
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Economics and Literature

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students discuss capital resources and the types of machines their families use at home. They discuss how these machines increase productivity, and how these concepts connect to the law of demand and capital invention.
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Levers and Pulleys and Gears, Oh My!

For Teachers 2nd
Students explore the difference between compound and simple machines in this six lessons of this unit. The purpose and importance of a variety of types of simple machines and the effects of friction are investigated.
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Does Candy Belong in Your School?

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students use the program MediaBlender to create a persuasive presentation about candy being allowed in school vending machines along with healthy snacks. Presentations are geared toward the school board.
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Beyond Science?: New Energy Age

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore, examine, experiment and study the energy believed to exist in the vacuum of space called zero-point energy. They design and build a machine and then place their machines to test zero-pointed energy into a competition.
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Functions Made Easy

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers explore concept of functions as relationships, as machines, as equations, and as graphs.
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A New "Spin" on Nuclear Energy

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explain how the spin cycle of a washing machine operates. They explore other applications of the centrifuge by reading and discussing the article "Slender and Elegant, It Fuels the Bomb."
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Things Are Heating Up!

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders study how heat is produced from mechanical and electrical machines and human activities.
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Time Travel

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students investigate the concept of time travel and quantum physics. They complete a Webquest, read excerpts from the book, 'The Time Machine,' play an online time traveler game, and read and evaluate newspaper articles about time.
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Pulley Power

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders engage in a manipulative experiment in the mechanical advantage of simple machines. It graphically demonstrates the change in magnitude of applied force when using simple machines. Great for ESL to discover the ratio...
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Invention Convention

For Teachers 5th
Invent a new machine for the 21st century and make a model of the invention in this cross-curricular lesson about Leonardo da Vinci. Young inventors will use various art supplies to create their models. The lesson includes resource links...

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