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Study Jams! Simple Machines InteractiveStudy Jams! Simple Machines Interactive
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Scholastic
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4th - 8th
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Science
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Study Jams! Simple Machines

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Here is a tri-faceted resource that has a slide show, a quiz, and a vocabulary list that you can use to teach simple machines. Six machines are introduced: wheels and axles, planes, levers, pulleys, wedges, and screws. Slides contain photos of people using the simple machines in a variety of interesting situations. Explanations are printed beneath each slide.

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Concepts

wheels, axles, fulcrum, levers, pulleys, simple machines

Additional Tags

simple machine, fulcrum, pulley, lever, wheel and axle, science

Pros

  • Hip instrumental music and moving slides draw interest to the quality photographs 
  • Option to turn music off or print out the slides as a handout
  • An interactive quiz and vocabulary definitions are available on the website

Cons

  • A very minor problem to note: axle is misspelled on the main page introduction

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