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Sure to be a hit with your charges, here is a science lesson plan that has lots of hands-on activities packed into it. The focus is simple machines, and how they help us perform work. After a discussion and demonstration session, groups of learners are given one simple machine to examine in detail. They must answer a series of questions about that machine and report their findings to the class.

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force, simple machines, work

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force, simple machines, work, gadgets, Physics, science
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5th
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Science
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