PBS
Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: Games Machines Play: Streamlined Design
Explore the streamlined shapes of submarines and design an effective hull shape. Observe how streamlining affects a vehicle as it is pulled through a water-filled trough.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Gears Go Round!
Music boxes, bicycles, and clocks all have one thing in common: GEARS. You might say that gears make the world turn, since they are in so many mechanical instruments. How do they work and how do you know which gears to use? Find out in...
Curated OER
University of Rochester: Steam Engine Simple Machine
image of Steam Engine Simple Machine
Integrated Publishing
Integrated Publishing: Mechanical Advantage
Good descriptions and diagrams to help explain the mechanical advantage of machines. Includes sample calculations of this quantity.
Other
D&t Online: Gears
This site illustrates how gears work and how they are used in simple machines.
Other
Cabaret Mechanical Theatre
These wooden, puppet-like machines operate on simple engineering: a turn crank. Watch them in action and see them in a full 360 degree view.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Games Machines Play: Rube Goldberg Challenge
Explore the cartoons of Rube Goldberg and design a complex machine to perform a simple task. Use scientific design elements and information about energy transfer to build a model of the machine.
Other
The Art of Carlos Zapata
The simple mechanics of these moving wooden puppets are old-fashioned, yet still appealing to today's audience.
NASA
Nasa: The Screw
In this lesson plan students learn how to make a screw and compare how many turns it takes for different screws to embed into a piece of wood.
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Function Machine
Students explore simple linear functions. The resource includes the activity and instructor resources.
Curated OER
Integrated Publishing/block & Tackle (Or Pulley)
Very substantial four-page article on how the block & tackle works. (It's a simple machine -- a pulley.) Lots of illustration. Mechanical advantage, formulae, solved problems, all here. Good source for info.
Curated OER
Integrated Publishing/block & Tackle (Or Pulley)
Very substantial four-page article on how the block & tackle works. (It's a simple machine -- a pulley.) Lots of illustration. Mechanical advantage, formulae, solved problems, all here. Good source for info.
Curated OER
Integrated Publishing/block & Tackle (Or Pulley)
Very substantial four-page article on how the block & tackle works. (It's a simple machine -- a pulley.) Lots of illustration. Mechanical advantage, formulae, solved problems, all here. Good source for info.
Curated OER
Integrated Publishing/the Screw
A full and complete discussion of the simple machine called the screw, a modified inclined plane. Many examples and drawings and applications.
Math Science Nucleus
I. Science Ma Te: Integrating Science, Math and Technology
This site offers a wealth of online textbook-related materials that encourage the discovery of science in the world around us. Enter the site to access material on specific topics. Each section contains reading material (complete with...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Physical Science: Screw
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] What a screw is, how it works and its mechanical advantage.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Physical Science: Wedge
[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.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Door Opener
Apply knowledge of simple machines to design on paper and then construct a device that will open a door from across the room.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Mechanical Efficiency: Lesson 3
This lesson will introduce the concept of Mechanical Efficiency and explain how to calculate it for simple machines. It is 3 of 3 in the series titled "Mechanical Efficiency."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Mechanical Efficiency: Lesson 1
This lesson will introduce the concept of Mechanical Efficiency and explain how to calculate it for simple machines. It is 1 of 3 in the series titled "Mechanical Efficiency."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Mechanical Efficiency: Lesson 2
This lesson will introduce the concept of Mechanical Efficiency and explain how to calculate it for simple machines. It is 2 of 3 in the series titled "Mechanical Efficiency."
Science Museum of Minnesota
Science Museum of Minnesota: Thinking Fountain: Friction
The Thinking Fountain provides this simple experiment for understanding friction and it relationship to energy.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Force on a Current Carrying Wire
Students use a simple set up consisting of a current carrying wire and a magnet to explore the forces which enable biomedical imaging. In doing so, students run a current through a wire and then hold magnets in various positions to...
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