Simple Machines - Guest Speaker

Trying to plan a physical science unit on forces and motion? Make your work a little easier with this comprehensive collection of simple machines resources. Offering a wide variety worksheets, activities, and projects, these materials...

Third graders explore simple machines as a way of helping the principle with a hurt foot manuever his way around the campus.

Students research definitions and examples of simple machines. They identify simple machines that are working parts of playground equipment that reflects their personalities and incorporates at least two simple machines. Students are...

Students describe simple machines and predict how they help us in our everyday lives by examining actual examples. They use pictures to identify examples of simple machines and state their purpose.

It's never too early to introduce even your youngest learners to simple machines. Kids explore the wheels and axle on a car to determine if it helps us do work. While they make cars here (specific directions are not included), consider...

Upper graders are shown an example of a wheel and axle through which they will each make a pinwheel. They are given instructions on how to complete their pinwheel step-by-step, one pinwheel per group. They try out their pinwheels to see...

Students test with a partner on the definitions of each simple machine and see if they can name which simple machine it is. An example is one student asks another "This simple machine is an inclined plane wrapped around a pole?"

Pupils work in small groups and construct a simple machine known as a pulley.

Students discuss the six simple machines and take home their Simple Machines Journal and write down all the items that are in their home that is a type of LEVER.

Students use a chart of the six simple machines and become aware of how the machines improve our ability to meet the following needs: shelter, food, water, and transportation. Students use model cars to experiment with force. They divide...