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Unit Plan
Beacon Learning Center

Beacon Learning Center: How Can We Move Our Principal?

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this problem solving exercise, students must decide which simple machine would work best in different situations, in order to help the principal manoeuvre himself after he has hurt his leg and can't walk. The site has a good tutorial...
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Engineering Solutions

For Students K - 1st
Anyone who has attempted one of those "claw machine" games at local restaurants or retailers knows how impossible it seems to win. This activity will get students using the engineering design process to develop a claw that will actually...
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Lesson Plan
TryEngineering

Try Engineering: Engineering Ups and Downs

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Engineering design lesson examines the principles behind working elevators. Teams of young scholars explore how elevators work, then design, build, and evaluate their own elevator to service a toy car garage.
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Curated OER

Integrated Publishing/block & Tackle (Or Pulley)

For Students 9th - 10th
Very substantial four-page article on how the block & tackle works. (It's a simple machine -- a pulley.) Lots of illustration. Mechanical advantage, formulae, solved problems, all here. Good source for info.
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Graphic
Curated OER

Integrated Publishing/block & Tackle (Or Pulley)

For Students 9th - 10th
Very substantial four-page article on how the block & tackle works. (It's a simple machine -- a pulley.) Lots of illustration. Mechanical advantage, formulae, solved problems, all here. Good source for info.
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Graphic
Curated OER

Integrated Publishing/block & Tackle (Or Pulley)

For Students 9th - 10th
Very substantial four-page article on how the block & tackle works. (It's a simple machine -- a pulley.) Lots of illustration. Mechanical advantage, formulae, solved problems, all here. Good source for info.