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Handout
Other

Hognosesam: Pulleys and Gears

For Students 9th - 10th
This site gives a small amount of space to pulleys, and then provides a wealth of information about gears.
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Handout
Integrated Publishing

Integrated Publishing: Pulley Mechanical Advantage

For Students 9th - 10th
Good illustrations and explanations for finding the mechanical advantage of pulley systems.
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Activity
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Give Yourself a Lift: Lightening the Load With Pulleys

For Students 9th - 10th
Before the Industrial Age, people relied on muscle power for moving and lifting heavy objects. Here's a project that shows you how you can use your head to make heavy lifting easier on your muscles - and your back.
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Lesson Plan
TryEngineering

Try Engineering: Pulleys and Force

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students work in teams to learn how pulleys and pulley systems impact everyday life. This activity explores the concept of force and shows how the use of pulleys can greatly reduce required force.
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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Practice W/ Ropes & Pulleys: Lesson 2

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson provides the learner with an example problem on determining the net force acting on objects within a rope and pulley system. It is 2 of 2 in the series titled "Practice w/ Ropes & Pulleys."
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Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Simple Machines: Pulley: Lesson 2

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson will explain how to calculate the mechanical advantage of a pulley system. It is 2 of 3 in the series titled "Simple Machines: Pulley."
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Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Simple Machines: Pulley: Lesson 3

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson will explain how to calculate the mechanical advantage of a pulley system. It is 3 of 3 in the series titled "Simple Machines: Pulley."
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Handout
Scholastic

Scholastic: Dirtmeister's Science Reporters: Simple Machines: Pulley

For Teachers 9th - 10th
With-it explanation of how the pulley works, where it's found. Most interesting, as Scholastic material usually is.
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Activity
Other

Colts Neck Township Schools: Hands on Technology: Marvelous Machines: Pulleys 2

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Student handout for conducting an experiment in using one pulley or two pulleys to lift a load.
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Activity
The Franklin Institute

Franklin Institute Online: The Pulley

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This site provides an easy to understand experiment that will demonstrate the pulley to students in grades K-3. It requires only everyday materials. The students are encouraged to discover some of these concepts for themselves and apply...
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Interactive
Walter Fendt

Walter Fendt: Pulley System

For Students 9th - 10th
An interactive activity which demonstrates systems of two, four. and six pulleys.
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Machines and Tools, Part Ii

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this activity, students gain first-hand experience with the mechanical advantage of pulleys. Students are given the challenge of helping save a whale by moving it from an aquarium back to its natural habitat into the ocean. They set...
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Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: Lifting the Load

For Teachers 3rd
Discover how much force is needed to lift objects without and with a pulley.
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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Forces in a Rope & Pulley System: Lesson 2

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson explains what forces are acting on objects which are at rest or moving in a rope and pulley system. It is 2 of 2 in the series titled "Forces in a Rope & Pulley System."
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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Net Force in Rope & Pulley Systems: Lesson 2

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson demonstrates how to find the net force acting on objects in a rope and pulley system. It is 2 of 2 in the series titled "Net Force in Rope & Pulley Systems."
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Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Net Force in Rope & Pulley Systems: Lesson 1

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson demonstrates how to find the net force acting on objects in a rope and pulley system. It is 1 of 2 in the series titled "Net Force in Rope & Pulley Systems."
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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Representing Forces in a Rope & Pulley System: Lesson 2

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson demonstrates how to draw a free-body diagram for a rope and pulley system. It is 2 of 2 in the series titled "Representing Forces in a Rope & Pulley System."
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Interactive
Concord Consortium

The Concord Consortium: Molecular Workbench: Weight Balance on a Pulley

For Students 9th - 10th
Watch how the placement of two weights attached to a chain on different sides of a pulley affect the movement of the system. You can adjust the heaviness of the weights.
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Unit Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Simple Machines From Pyramids to Skyscrapers

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Simple machines are devices with few or no moving parts that make work easier, and which people have used to provide mechanical advantage for thousands of years. Students learn about the wedge, wheel and axle, lever, inclined plane,...
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: The Power of Mechanical Advantage

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students learn about the mechanical advantage offered by pulleys in an interactive and game-like manner. By virtue of the activity's mechatronic presentation, they learn to study a mechanical system not as a static image, but rather as a...
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Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Levers That Lift

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This lesson introduces students to three of the six simple machines used by many engineers: the lever, the pulley, and the wheel-and-axle. In general, engineers use the lever to magnify the force applied to an object, the pulley to lift...
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Unit Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Simple Machines

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Through a five-lesson series with five hands-on activities, students are introduced to six simple machines - inclined plane, wedge, screw, lever, pulley, wheel-and-axle - as well as compound machines, which are combinations of two or...
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Interactive
Walter Fendt

Walter Fendt: Sistema De Poleas

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is an interactive applet using the principles of a pulley system. The number of pulleys can be varied as well as the load lifted
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Interactive
Educaplus (Jesús Peñas Cano)

Educaplus: Dinamicas De Dos Masas Que Cuelgan De Una Polea [In Spanish]

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a short demonstration to see the dynamics of two masses connected by a pulley.

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