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Simple Machines make work easier.
High schoolers examine how simple machine work can make work easier. For this machines lesson students complete an activity that shows them what makes up a machine, and how to measure displacement and velocity.
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Finding Simple Machines in Farm Machinery
Students identify simple machines and how they must work together to form a piece of equipment used in agriculture. They create a diagram of a piece of farm equipment and write about two of the simple machines they drew.
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Wheel & Axle Tractor
Students design and build a tractor using LEGO materials. They write and draw their designs.