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Engineering: Simple Machines Lesson Plan

Engineering: Simple Machines Lesson Plan

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Engineering: Simple Machines

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Fourth graders 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.

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engineering design, engineering, engineers, careers, axles, force, levers, simple machines, inclined planes, technology resources

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axle, build, engineer, force, inclined plane, lever, simple machines

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4th

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Duration

45 mins

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Technology

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Year

2005

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