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366 resources with the concept simple machines

Simple Machines Unit

Simple Machines

3rd - 5th
New ReviewSimple doesn't mean useless. Individuals learn how simple machines benefit the user by changing the amount of effort. A seven-lesson unit begins with an overview of simple machines and then incorporates activities that allow the user to...
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Simple Machines Lesson Plan

Simple Machines

3rd
New ReviewWhat'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 – Dog Gone It! Lesson Plan

Simple Machines – Dog Gone It!

3rd
New ReviewHow 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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Gifted and Talented Enrichment Curriculum Unit

Gifted and Talented Enrichment Curriculum

K - 6th
Looking to start or support a Gifted and Talented program? An 80-page packet outlines grade-leveled lessons in all subject areas as school district's Gifted and Talented enrichment curriculum.
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The Newton Challenge Lesson Plan

The Newton Challenge

6th - 8th
CCSS: Designed
Make Newton proud. Scholars apply their understanding of forces and energy to an engineering design challenge. They learn about simple machines, create a presentation on Newton's laws, and develop a balloon-powered car.
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Da Vinci: Machines Exhibition Unit

Da Vinci: Machines Exhibition

8th - 12th
Transportation devices, military devices, mechanical devices, entertainment devices. The inventions of Leonardo da Vinci are legendary. After viewing images of da Vinci's inventions, class members are encouraged to draft their own...
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Art Masterpiece—Leonardo da Vinci Inventions Lesson Plan

Art Masterpiece—Leonardo da Vinci Inventions

6th
After getting to know the inventor, Leonardo da Vinci and his many inventions, scholars think up their own invention. Following a written description and a hand-drawn picture, learners use a method of mirror writing and antiquing to give...
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Helping Hand Activities & Project

Helping Hand

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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Helping Hand Activities & Project

Helping Hand

6th - 12th
Sometimes we all need a helping hand. Scholars get together to lend a hand in creating an assistive device that must be able to grab a hard-to-reach object. Now that's some help we could all use!
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Invent a Robot! Lesson Plan

Invent a Robot!

5th - 6th
CCSS: Designed
Wait til your class gets their hands on this! Aspiring engineers design a working robotic arm in the fifth and final installment in a series of ocean exploration lessons. Pupils learn about the use of underwater robots in ocean...
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Rube Goldberg Machines Unit

Rube Goldberg Machines

7th - 12th
Use humor to study simple machines! An engaging set of nine lessons allows learners to explore simple machines, kinetic, and potential energy as they work through cartoon renditions inspired by Rube Goldberg. Choose one or multiple...
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Block and Tackle Interactive

Block and Tackle

6th - 12th
CCSS: Adaptable
Can you easily lift more than your own weight? With a pulley system, almost anyone can manage this challenge. Scholars adjust the mechanical advantage (number of pulleys), weight of object being lifted, and the length of rope pulled. The...
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Ramp and Piano Interactive

Ramp and Piano

6th - 12th
CCSS: Adaptable
Can you lift a piano into a truck? Simulation allows scholars to explore the relationship between force, ramp length, and weight. Pupils control the variables of truck bed height, ramp length, weight of piano, and the number of friends...
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Pulley Lab Lesson Plan

Pulley Lab

8th - 10th
Determine the meaning of the ideal and actual mechanical advantage of a pulley system. As learners complete the simulated experiment, they make a connection to the mechanical advantage of a pulley system and the number of fixed and...
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Read Across America Activities & Project

Read Across America

K - 6th
CCSS: Designed
Celebrate the whimsical world of Dr. Seuss on Read Across America Day with a collection of science, technology, engineering, the arts, and mathematics activities, each linked to a popular Dr. Seuss story. 
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Engineering for Mesopotamia Unit

Engineering for Mesopotamia

6th - 8th
CCSS: Designed
Use engineering principles to solve issues in farming. The STEM project teaches scholars about several challenges encountered by farmers in ancient Mesopotamia. They design machines that could overcome these challenges.
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Tree House Escape Lesson Plan

Tree House Escape

3rd - 8th
CCSS: Designed
Use simple machines to escape from a tree house. Pupils learn about simple machines and how they are useful in everyday life in a STEM lesson. Groups then design a device to rescue a friend stuck in a tree house.
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Motion Commotion Lesson Plan

Motion Commotion

3rd - 8th
CCSS: Designed
Ever wonder what it would be like to be Rube Goldberg for a day? Scholars learn about simple machines and how combining them creates complex machines in a STEM activity. They use everyday materials to build machines to ring a bell along...
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It's a Whatchamacallit Lesson Plan

It's a Whatchamacallit

6th - 8th
CCSS: Adaptable
Learners formulate new applications for simple machines in an original invention that solves a common problem. They brainstorm ideas for a new product using simple machines and communicate a finished project through an oral, written, and...
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Biological Oceanographic Investigations – Call to Arms Lesson Plan

Biological Oceanographic Investigations – Call to Arms

5th - 6th
How many simple machines does it take to make a robotic arm? An inquiry-based lesson explores that topic and challenges pupils to build a robotic arm that can stretch, turn, and more. A few questions help guide them in the right...
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Simple Machines Video

Simple Machines

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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Simple Machines
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Simple Machines

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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Energy, Work, Simple Machines Presentation

Energy, Work, Simple Machines

11th - Higher Ed
CCSS: Adaptable
The tension of the 236 strings in a grand piano exert a combined force of 20 tons on the cast iron frame. The presentation includes topics such as work, forms of energy, conservation of energy, gravitational and elastic potential energy,...
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What's Inside? Lesson Plan

What's Inside?

5th - 8th
If the whole thing cannot be recycled, can the parts? In this activity groups dissect old toys and electronics to determine what is inside. They sort components based upon material while also identifying the parts that are simple...
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