Curated OER
Build a Space Shuttle
Pupils explore the concept of space. In this space lesson plan, students pretend to be aerospace engineers. Pupils build space ships out of cardboard tubes. Students discuss what aerospace engineers do. Pupils model their space ships...
Curated OER
Vocabulary Test - Adverbs
In this adverbs worksheet, students write an adverb that starts with each letter of the alphabet. Students write 26 adverbs on the given lines.
Curated OER
Simple Machines
Students define the term simple machine, identify and appreciate their use. In this simple machines instructional activity students complete an activity and share their ideas.
Curated OER
The Pork With Torque
Students determine the torque of CEENBoTs wheel hub. In this physics lesson, students reinforce their learning by exploring interactive websites on torque. They give real life applications of torque.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Lever an Obelisk
Investigate the mechanical advantage of the lever in this interactive activity from the NOVA Web site.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Give It a Lift With a Lever
Simple machines allow us to do difficult tasks like lifting objects heavier than our body weight. In this science project you'll build a tabletop lever and measure how much effort it takes to lift an object by altering the length of the...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Simple Machines: Levers: Lesson 3
This lesson will introduce the three types of levers and show how to calculate the mechanical advantage of each. It is 3 of 3 in the series titled "Simple Machines: Levers."
Science Struck
Science Struck: Simple Machine: Levers
Explains what a lever is, its history, how it works, the formula for calculating its mechanical advantage, classes of levers, and uses of levers.
Other
D&t Online: Levers
This site illustrates different classes of levers that are used in simple machines.
Other
Manhattan Beach Unified School District: Levers and Other Simple Machines
Learn about levers and make the connection between these simple machines and the human body.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Physical Science: Lever
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Definition of a lever and the three different classes, and how each one changes force.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Dirtmeister's Science Reporters: The Lever
This site provides a description of the lever and its many uses.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Dirtmeister's Science Lab: Levers
Step into Dirtmeister's Science Lab and help him answer the challenge question: "How can you lift four times your weight?" Learn about levers, make your predictions and then do the experiment.
Ohio University
Haptic Augmented Simple Machines: The Lever
An explanation of the three types of levers, with examples of each. The formula for the law of equilibrium is also demonstrated.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: The Forearm as an Example of a Third Class Lever
This is a five-question quiz related to the passage "The Forearm as an Example of a Third-class Lever."
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: The Mighty Mathematics of the Lever
Andy Peterson and Zack Patterson use the seesaw to illustrate the amazing implications and uses of the lever. [4:45]
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Levers & Work
A video tutorial showing the relationship between levers and work as it relates to mathematics. [4:33]
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Levers: How the Human Body Uses Them to Its Advantage
Students will apply the concept of levers to the human body and build all three classes of levers within a musculoskeletal context. They will be shown how the musculoskeletal system is a system of levers and one example of each type of...
Integrated Publishing
Integrated Publishing: Levers
A quite lengthy chapter on the simple machine the lever. Includes uses, classes, mechanical advantage, formulae, etc. A full discussion, with good illustrations.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Levers:relationship of Force of Effort & Resistance Fulcrum Placement
Students investigate the relationship between the two forces and the location of the fulcrum in a first class lever. Students work in cooperative groups of approximately three to make observations that they can then generate a formula...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Levers Weight Lifters
During this lesson, learners will have the opportunity to explore levers through hands-on experiences and by navigating the Internet. This lesson allows students to use their experiences to determine how levers and other simple machines...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: First Class Levers
Through observation and inquiry, learners are given various objects to investigate how levers work and why they might be useful.
PBS
Pbs: Nova: Lever an Obelisk
Help lift this Obelisk monument by designing a lever to do the job as efficiently as possible.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Plix: Boyle's Law: Lever
[Free Registration/Login Required] With the given shapes and labels, construct a second-class lever that would help in lifting very heavy items.
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