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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 I - Inclined Planes, Wedges, and Screws Lesson Plan

Simple Machines I - Inclined Planes, Wedges, and Screws

Lesson Planet
4th
The principles and uses of inclined planes, screws, and wedges are the focus of a science lesson. In it, youngsters come up with every day examples of simple machines, and build an example of one in class. That project is then used to...
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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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Simple Machines
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Simple Machines

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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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Just Plane Simple Lesson Plan
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Just Plane Simple

Lesson Planet
7th - 9th
CCSS: Designed
It is plane to see that simple machines help reduce the force needed to perform a task.  This resource introduces three of the simple machines--the inclined plane, the wedge, and the screw, and  the formulas in order to be able to...
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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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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

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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

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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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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

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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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Simple Machines – Dog Gone It! Lesson Plan

Simple Machines – Dog Gone It!

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3rd
How can people use simple machines to solve real-world STEM problems? Learn about simple machines using a hands-on, project-based learning activity. First, pupils investigate and evaluate simple machines. Then, they receive a task that...
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Not So Simple Lesson Plan

Not So Simple

Lesson Planet
7th - 9th
Compound machines, nothing more than a combination of simple machines working together, are the focus of an activity that asks class members to use the provided information to take a look at the way innovators combine simple machines to...
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The Advantage of Machines Lesson Plan

The Advantage of Machines

Lesson Planet
7th - 9th
CCSS: Designed
Show your students how to make their work easier. The first lesson in a series of 10 introduces the class to work and the way simple machines can be make work easier. The simple machines scholars can find in everyday items are inclined...
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Simple Machines Video

Simple Machines

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5 mins 4th - 8th
Simple machines and the relationship between work and force are defined. Inclined planes, the wheel and axle, pulleys, levers, wedges, and screws are detailed. This video consists entirely of typed white print appearing across a purple...
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Leonardo da Vinci: Machines in Motion Activities & Project

Leonardo da Vinci: Machines in Motion

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5th - 8th
Motion is the focus of ten hands-on activities that challenge scholars to build machines invented by Leonardo da Vinci. Following several steps, small groups work collaboratively to recreate machines including levers, pulleys, wheels,...
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Work and Machines Presentation
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Work and Machines

Lesson Planet
7th - 8th
CCSS: Adaptable
What would you be if you were attached to another object by an inclined plane wrapped helically around an axis? In this fourth presentation that covers work and simple machines, young physicists look at Newtons and Joules as well as...
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Simple Machines Lesson Plan

Simple Machines

Lesson Planet
3rd
What's the best way to use a simple machine to solve a real-world problem? Scholars construct their own simple and complex machines to explore the concepts of work and force. They discuss examples of simple machines they have found in...
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Simple Machines Video

Simple Machines

Lesson Planet
6 mins 9th - 12th
Sometimes simple machines don't seem so...simple. The video lesson explains the principles of simple machines. Viewers also discover the concept of mechanical advantage and how it affects the forces related to simple machines. 
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You are Uniquely You Lesson Plan

You are Uniquely You

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3rd - 5th
Students compare and contrast simple machines and their functions. In this cross-curriculum science simple machines lesson, students observe examples and read about simple machines, then use body movement to demonstrate how machines...
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Simple Machines Worksheet

Simple Machines

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4th - 5th
In this simple machines worksheet, students look at 6 pictures and name the kind of simple machine. Students then look around school and home to list examples of the simple machines: lever. inclined plane, wheel and axle, pulley, wedge...
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Simple Machines - Museum of Science and Industry Lesson Plan

Simple Machines - Museum of Science and Industry

Lesson Planet
3rd - 4th
In this museum student guide worksheet, students make a mini-book about simple machines to be used during a visit to the Museum of Science and Industry. They locate the exhibits that demonstrate the wedge, inclined plane, screw, lever,...
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Simple Machines Stations! Lesson Plan

Simple Machines Stations!

Lesson Planet
4th
Fourth graders investigate the principles and uses of an inclined plane, screw, and wedge and identify examples of simple machines. They rotate through three experiment stations, complete a worksheet for each station, and read a handout...
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