Machine Tools and Processes Teacher Resources

Pupils study sheep ranching practices and wool gathering. In this agriculture instructional activity, students discuss sheep ranching and construct a sheep book of information and pictures. Pupils color diagrams and fill in 3 blanks.

Students discover the connection between geography and folklore in several African nations. In groups, they record information from maps of their assigned countries. Students observe the pictures in books and match the geographic...

Middle schoolers practice making sampler quilts out of various fabrics. As a class, they watch a demonstration by their teacher discussing the different techniques. They make their own and share them with the class asking for...

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,...

Using common household items, make a tool that an astronaut could use to pick up an object in space. This site also includes tips, lesson plans, and a place for students to document their engineering design process.

Can you design a tool that can lift objects from a water depth of at least 1 foot? This website contains the design challenge, tips, a lesson plan, and a place for students to document their design process.

This site describes and illustrates the basic equipment and processes that are used in construction and manufacturing.

As students learn more about the manufacturing process, they use what they learned from testing their designs in the previous activity to continue to improve and redesign. Students also have the opportunity to manufacture their final...

By the end of this project, students will be familiar with the 6 different simple machines and will be able to identify how these machines are used in products and tools they use on a daily basis. They will investigate how mechanical...