Simple Machines
Topics: Engineering NGSS Scientific Process Structure and Function
Skills: Communication Measuring Modeling Questioning Researching Small group work
Grade Levels: Grades 3-5
Resource Types: Kits
Settings: Indoors
Simple machines are the most basic type of machines. They either allow us to use less force to move an object or change the direction of the applied force. We use many of these in everyday life. The large ships on Lake Superior are complicated machines made up of many simple machines.
Minnesota Science Standards: 3.1.1.2, 3.1.3.4, 4.1.2.1, 4.1.2.2, 4.1.3.3, 5.1.1.2, 5.1.3.4, 5.2.2.1
Credit: Partners in Education Program
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