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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: The Power of Mechanical Advantage

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students learn about the mechanical advantage offered by pulleys in an interactive and game-like manner. By virtue of the activity's mechatronic presentation, they learn to study a mechanical system not as a static image, but rather as a...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physical Science: Mechanical Advantage

For Students 7th - 9th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Actual and ideal mechanical advantage, how to calculate them and the mechanical advantage of different types of machines.
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Ohio State University

Ohio State Univ.: Simple Machines & Mechanical Advantage [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
This site details how simple machines create a mechanical advantage for humans. Levers, theoretical mechanical advantage, actual mechanical advantage, and pulley systems are discussed.
Handout
Integrated Publishing

Integrated Publishing: Force and Mechanical Advantage

For Students 9th - 10th
Explains the relationship between force and mechanical advantage with diagrams, examples and calculations.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Comparing Mechanical Advantage and Efficiency of Pulleys

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Young scholars determine the mechanical advantage of three pulley set-ups. Then they measure the work input and output to calculate the efficiency. Finally, students determine the relationship between the mechanical advantage and the...
Handout
Integrated Publishing

Integrated Publishing: Pulley Mechanical Advantage

For Students 9th - 10th
Good illustrations and explanations for finding the mechanical advantage of pulley systems.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Simple Machines

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Through a five-lesson series with five hands-on activities, students are introduced to six simple machines - inclined plane, wedge, screw, lever, pulley, wheel-and-axle - as well as compound machines, which are combinations of two or...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Simple Machines From Pyramids to Skyscrapers

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
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,...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physical Science: Screw

For Students 7th - 9th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] What a screw is, how it works and its mechanical advantage.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physical Science: Wedge

For Students 7th - 9th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] What a wedge is and its mechanical advantage, how it changes force to make work easier.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Levers: How the Human Body Uses Them to Its Advantage

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will apply the concept of levers to the human body and build all three classes of levers within a musculoskeletal context. They will be shown how the musculoskeletal system is a system of levers and one example of each type of...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Wide World of Gears

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In an interactive and game-like manner, students learn about the mechanical advantage that is offered by gears. By virtue of the activity's mechatronics presentation, students learn to study a mechanical system as a dynamic system under...
Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12 Exploration Series: Simulations: Physics: See Saw

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] How does a See Saw allow you to "lift" someone who is heavier than you? This module helps students understand about torque and mechanical advantage.
Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12 Exploration Series: Simulations: Physics: Block and Tackle

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] A video module where students learn about the relationship between force, work, energy, and mechanical advantage using a simple machine.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Physical Science: Work and Energy

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out about simple machines, calculate the mechanical advantage and efficiency of machines, differentiate potential and kinetic energy, and learn ways to use energy more efficiently.
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Other

Ontario Council for Technology Education: Designing and Testing a Crane [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Splash, Pop, Fizz: Rube Goldberg Machines

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Refreshed with an understanding of the six simple machines; screw, wedge, pully, incline plane, wheel and axle, and lever, student groups receive materials and an allotted amount of time to act as mechanical engineers to design and...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: The Claw

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students learn about gear ratios and power by operating toy mechanical cranes of differing gear ratios. They attempt to pick up objects with various masses to witness how much power must be applied to the system to oppose the force of...
Graphic
Curated OER

Science Kids: Science Images: Mechanical Advantage

For Students 9th - 10th
This diagram helps illustrate the important idea of mechanical advantage. With a 2 to 1 mechanical advantage, the man pulls the rope which elevates the load.
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CommonLit

Common Lit: Coping Mechanisms

For Students 7th - 8th
Work, school, money - these are some of the most common stressors in everyday life. The effects of stress on a person's mental and emotional health may vary, but without the proper tools to cope, stress can have serious consequences. It...
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Other

University of Arkansas: Simple Machines

For Students 9th - 10th
A thorough discussion of all the simple machines, beginning with some thoughts on mechanical advantage and conservation of energy. Very complete. Move down to the section that interests you.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Simple Machines: Levers: Lesson 3

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson will introduce the three types of levers and show how to calculate the mechanical advantage of each. It is 3 of 3 in the series titled "Simple Machines: Levers."
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physical Science: Compound Machine

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Provides a definition of a compound machine with examples and discusses the efficiency and mechanical advantage of compound machines.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physical Science: Inclined Plane

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Discusses what an inclined plane is, its mechanical advantage, and how it changes force to make work easier.

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