Curated OER
What To Do After The Hands-Are-On
Students perform various demonstrations for each of Newton's Laws, collect data, and write a conclusion for each.
Curated OER
Egyptians as Engineers
Student design and build Lego vehicles that drag given amount of weight up an incline. They show how this demonstrates Egyptian methods of pyramid construction.
Curated OER
What's Hiding in the Air?
Fifth graders conduct experiments to study the effects of invisible air pollutants including one with a bean plant. They examine methods of invisible air pollutants.
Curated OER
Wheel & Axle Tractor
Young scholars design and build a tractor using LEGO materials. They write and draw their designs.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Inventions Using Simple Machines Project
Students will have completed a unit on the six simple machines (lever, inclined plane, pulley, wedge, screw, and wheel and axle) before beginning this project. Students will choose to investigate an invention composed of one or more...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Simple Machines
This instructional activity will teach young scholars about simple machines. Students will have an opportunity to explore and identify simple machines used in their everyday lives. Young scholars will enjoy learning as they play a game...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Incline Plane and the Crashing Marble
Students will measure the effects of the height of an inclined plane on the force a marble produces to move a plastic, foam, or paper cup across a table. Students will discover that the higher the incline plane, the more force produced...