Stuents explore wheels and axles and how they maka machine move. After a teacher demonstration, students construct a wheel and axle. Students explore the circumference of the wheel. They compare the wheel sizes, speed, distance, and load...

Here is an inventive plan that should get your young scientists excited! In it, groups of pupils test out the work done by six different simple machines. The machines are: the wedge, the lever, the inclined plane, the pulley, the screw,...

Students design, make and appraise a model wheeled vehicle that is capable of carrying a small load. This activity is part of the unit `Wheels in motion'.

An interesting historical fact about how handcarts benefitted to the Mormon pioneers is the context behind this math lesson plan. Using given facts and figures regarding the handcart, pupil pairs create math word problems, share them...

Students use basic materials to create four simple machines. In this introduction to simple machines instructional activity, students are given four different scenarios that require a simple machine in order to solve. The students use...

Students use a simple machine (a lever) to launch a plastic frog. students determine who is able to make their frog "jump" the farthest and graph the results.

Learners investigate simple machines and their uses in everyday life.  In this scientific method instructional activity, students examine physical tools such as wedges, screws, and levers using a "how does it work" approach....