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Move It!
Third graders examine simple machines. In this simple machines lesson, 3rd graders observe simple machines at work in a video, then experiment with creating their own simple machines to move objects.
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Machines at Work
Students discuss how simple machines have made our lives easier and construct a compound machine. In this machines lesson plan, students watch a video on machines, look at websites, and follow task cards in order to make a simple machine.
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An Introduction to Simple Machines
Students investigate simple machines and their uses in everyday life. In this scientific method activity, students examine physical tools such as wedges, screws, and levers using a "how does it work" approach. Students...
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Pulleys 1
In this simple machines scientific investigation worksheet, students follow the provided procedures to examine how pulleys work and then respond to 2 short answer questions.
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Inclined Plane 1
In this scientific investigation learning exercise, students follow the provided procedures to create an inclined plane paper model and then respond to 1 short answer question.
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Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes
Sixth graders discuss how people, society, and technology change over time through a unit of integrated lessons. In these changes in society lessons, 6th graders discuss the answers to many questions about how changes effect the...
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Simple Machines-Lever
Learners examine the lever. In this simple machines lesson, students construct a lever by using two pencils, three pennies, and a ruler. Learners explore the uses of a lever.
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Simple Machines-Pulleys
Third graders understand what a pulley is and how it works. In this simple machines, pulley lesson students experiment with broom sticks creating a pulley. Students observe how the pulley moves in its different trials.
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Challenger's Lost Lessons - The Lost Simple Machines Lesson
Students investigate the characteristics of simple machines. In this simple machine lesson, students investigate work as a product of applying constant force. They answer questions about what happens on Earth and what may have happened...
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Simple Machines Vocabulary Quiz Worksheet
In this simple machines vocabulary quiz worksheet, students match the 19 terms in the word bank to the appropriate definitions.
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Simple Machines Word Search Worksheet
In this simple machines worksheet, students search for words that represent simple machines in a word search. Students search for 18 words.
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Do the Research! Simple Machines
In this simple machines worksheet, students do research to find facts about simple machines. Students answer 4 short essay questions.
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Simple Machines Chop Worksheet
In this simple machines worksheet, students analyze a table of 16 words pertaining to simple machines. The words have been chopped in half. Students match the parts and write the words on the lines. There is no word bank.
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Simple Machines
Young scholars explore the functions of simple machines. In this simple machines lesson, pupils evaluate the uses of simple machines as they dissect a machine and then design their own.
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Simple Machines, Odd Machine
Middle schoolers investigate simple machines. In this simple machines lesson, students identify the six simple machines from an object or drawing. Middle schoolers also use various objects to identify the simple machines found in a...
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How a Faucet Works
Students use the basic concepts of simple machines, force and fluid flow to describe the path of water through a simple faucet. In this faucet lesson plan, students study the workings of a faucet and translate this knowledge into...
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Simple Machines and Mechanical Advantage
In this machines worksheet, students review the six simple machines and how to calculate mechanical advantage. Students complete 8 matching, 16 fill in the blank, and 6 problems to solve.
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Connection to Social Studies-The Pyramids
In this simple machines worksheet, learners read about the pyramids and the simple machines used to build them. They answer three critical thinking questions about the building of the pyramids.
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Simple Machines
In these simple machines worksheets, students complete several activities to learn about simple machines. Students complete a Venn Diagram, a web, an acrostic, an illustration, write and research two questions, and write a report about...
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Simple Machines and Mechanical Advantage
In this simple machines science worksheet, students read about simple machines, mechanical advantages, calculating mechanical advantage, output force versus input force, and distance effort versus distance of resistance. Then students...
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Chapter 3 and 4 Review
For this physics review worksheet, students complete 42 matching, fill in blank, and problem solving questions pertaining to Newton's laws, force formulas, distance formulas, and simple machines.
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Work and Efficiency
In this doing work activity, students calculate how a ramp can increase the efficiency of the work done by decreasing the force necessary to complete the task. This activity has 9 problems to solve.
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How Does a Lever Work?
In this lever worksheet, students read and do the 8 detailed steps in an investigation about levers. Students answer 2 essay questions and record their data on a chart.
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Gearing Up--Learning About Gears
For this learning about gears worksheet, 5th graders read and discuss a 1 page article on gears, fill in 7 blanks to complete 5 facts about gears and make a set of gears from a template provided in the worksheet.