Here is a tri-faceted resource that has a slide show, a quiz, and a vocabulary list that you can use to teach simple machines. Six machines are introduced: wheels and axles, planes, levers, pulleys, wedges, and screws. Slides contain...

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...

Identify the six simple machines by dragging the correct term, and dropping it onto the associated simple machine.

The six types of simple machines are explained clearly through pictures, text and videos.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Drag the labels to identify the different parts of the wheelbarrow as parts in a lever.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Drag the labeled triangles to indicate where the fulcrum of this third-class lever is as well as the input and output forces.