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177 resources with the concept levers

Simple Machines Unit

Simple Machines

Lesson Planet
2nd - 5th
CCSS: Adaptable
Planning an elementary science unit has never been simpler! These twelve lessons guide young scientists through an exploration of simple machines and their many uses in the real world before asking them to apply their learning in the...
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Simple Machines Unit

Simple Machines

Lesson Planet
4th - 8th
CCSS: Adaptable
Planning a unit on simple machines? Save some time and energy with this collection of lessons and activities that explores how these devices are used in the real world to make life a little easier. 
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Simple Machines Make Things Go Activities & Project

Simple Machines Make Things Go

Lesson Planet
2nd - 5th
CCSS: Adaptable
Trying to plan a physical science unit on forces and motion? Make your work a little easier with this comprehensive collection of simple machines resources. Offering a wide variety worksheets, activities, and projects, these materials...
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Simple Machines IV - Levers Lesson Plan

Simple Machines IV - Levers

Lesson Planet
4th
The principles of levers and simple machines are presented here. An easy-to-make lever is constructed by each group of scientists, and they use it to explore how this simple machine makes heavy things so much easier to lift and move. A...
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Work and Energy: Forms and Changes Presentation

Work and Energy: Forms and Changes

Lesson Planet
7th - 12th
Your introductory physical science class will be energized by this PowerPoint. They will be able to define energy, work, and power. They will be able to perform calculations for kinetic and potential energy. They will be able to describe...
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Qualitative Examples of Conservation of Mechanical Energy Lesson Plan

Qualitative Examples of Conservation of Mechanical Energy

Lesson Planet
9th - Higher Ed
Instructions for series of six activites, a reading of scientific literature, and a choice of six assessments await you in this physics resource. Well-written plans guide you in guiding your pupils to experiment with levers, pulleys,...
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STEM Narrative Curriculum Design Challenges Unit

STEM Narrative Curriculum Design Challenges

Lesson Planet
K - 6th
CCSS: Designed
Picture books provide great learning opportunities for STEM. A curriculum resource document gives several lessons in each grade level for K-6. The activities have learners read a book before applying the engineering design process to...
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Moving Toy Mechanisms Interactive

Moving Toy Mechanisms

Lesson Planet
6th - 12th
CCSS: Adaptable
Who says playing around in class is a bad idea? Precocious physicists engage in building mechanisms that include cams, gears, pulleys, and levers using an interactive lesson. After completing toy tutorials about each topic, users build a...
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Helping Hand Activities & Project

Helping Hand

Lesson Planet
4th - 8th
Reach out and grab something. Given the task of picking up objects at least two feet away, pupils design and build a grabber. The last activity in a series of five challenges requires learners to use information about fulcrums and levers.
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Catapult Lesson Plan

Catapult

Lesson Planet
4th - 12th
Studying levers couldn't be more exciting! Learners build their own catapults and test the results as they make adjustments to the fulcrum. They compete against other groups to create the most accurate apparatus.
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Catapults Lesson Plan

Catapults

Lesson Planet
4th - 8th
Ready, aim, fire! Launch to a new level of understanding as scholars build and test their own catapults. Learners explore lever design and how adjusting the fulcrum changes the outcome. 
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See Saw Interactive

See Saw

Lesson Planet
9th - 12th
CCSS: Adaptable
Can a mother who weighs five times more than her child really be held in the air on a see saw by the child? A simple simulation demonstrates how this is possible through altering the distance from the fulcrum. Scholars can adjust the...
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Simple Machines
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Simple Machines

Lesson Planet
5th - 8th
CCSS: Adaptable
Ramps, levers, screws, pulleys, and more! Help your students learn about simple machines by having them understand how they conserve energy, how they are used in our every day lives, and how to build their own. Some resources get into combining simple machines to form compound machines. 
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The Magician's Catapult Activities & Project
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The Magician's Catapult

Lesson Planet
7th - 9th
CCSS: Designed
Class members work in pairs to build a catapult to launch a grape a given distance. The catapult project, a compound machine, reinforces pupils' understanding of simple machines.
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A Simple Solution for the Circus Activities & Project

A Simple Solution for the Circus

Lesson Planet
6th - 8th
Class members are challenged to design a device that will move a circus elephant into a train car. Groups brainstorm ideas that use simple machines to load the elephant. They then choose one of their ideas, sketch a plan, and present it...
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Potential and Kinetic Energy Handouts & Reference

Potential and Kinetic Energy

Lesson Planet
9th - 12th
CCSS: Adaptable
Here's a resource ideal for independent learners who need extra reinforcement or would like to work ahead. These textbook chapters and practice problems cover many basic physics concepts, starting with potential and kinetic energy and...
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Six Kinds Do It All Lesson Plan

Six Kinds Do It All

Lesson Planet
2nd - 6th
CCSS: Adaptable
Teach young engineers that all machines, no matter how complicated or complex, are made up of just six simple devices with this hands-on physical science lesson. Using the included templates, students first create paper models of...
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Simple Machines Project Activities & Project

Simple Machines Project

Lesson Planet
3rd - 8th
CCSS: Adaptable
The choice is simple: create a PowerPoint presentation, write a book, or invent a compound machine. Whichever project your young scientists choose, they will be engaged in creatively demonstrating their knowledge of simple machines and...
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Simple Machines Design Project Activities & Project

Simple Machines Design Project

Lesson Planet
3rd - 6th
CCSS: Adaptable
Make your work as a teacher a little easier with a physical science project on simple machines. After introducing young scientists to these devices and identifying their different uses around the school, this project engages children in...
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Blow the Roof Off! Unit
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Blow the Roof Off!

PD Learning Network
3rd - 8th
CCSS: Adaptable
Blow the minds of young scientists with this collection of inquiry-based investigations. Based on a series of eight videos, these "hands-on, minds-on" science lessons engage young learners in exploring a wide range of topics from making...
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Force and Motion Unit

Force and Motion

Lesson Planet
3rd - 8th
CCSS: Adaptable
Get the ball rolling with this upper-elementary science unit on forces and motion. Offering over three weeks of physical science lessons, this resource is a great way to engage the class in learning about simple machines, friction, the...
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The Mighty Mathematics of the Lever Video
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The Mighty Mathematics of the Lever

Lesson Planet
5 mins 7th - 12th
CCSS: Adaptable
Exactly what did Archimedes mean when he said, "Give me a place to stand, and I will move the Earth"? Watch this video and find out as it explains the mathematics behind levers, and explores a few fun hypothetical situations involving...
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Simple Machines: Force and Motion Unit

Simple Machines: Force and Motion

Lesson Planet
2nd - 4th
CCSS: Adaptable
Get things moving with this elementary science unit on simple machines. Through a series of nine lessons including teacher demonstrations, hands-on activities, and science experiments, young scientists learn about forces, motion, and...
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Simple Machines Worksheet Handouts & Reference
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Simple Machines Worksheet

Lesson Planet
3rd - 8th
CCSS: Adaptable
Simplify students' lives with this physical science note-taking guide. From inclined planes to moveable pulleys, this resource supports young scientists with defining each type of simple machine while identifying their mechanical...
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