Simple Machines Choice board

Simple Machines Choice Board

Read about Simple Machines

Simple Machines with the National Air and Space Museum

Make a Class One Lever

Solve This with National Geographic

Make your Own ski slope

Save Rapunzel

Screw Experiment

Which Wedge Cuts best?

Wheel and Axle Experiment

Read about simple machines

1. Choose a book from the Simple Machines bin in the classroom library or a book on Epic! If you are reading in Epic, click on the Simple Machines Collection and choose a book.2. In your science journal, write a paragraph about what you learned.

Simple Machines with the National Air and Space Museum

1. Click on the following link: 2. Watch the video to learn about some real-life uses of simple machines with the National Air and Space Museum. 3. Write a paragraph in your Science journal about what you learned.

Make a Class One Lever

1. Go to page 25 in the book Explore Simple Machines in Epic (This book has been assigned to you.)2. Get the need materials from the counter by the sink. 3. Follow directions on page 25 in your book. 4. Answer the following questions in your Science Journal: - What are some ways that you tried to balance the batteries? -What happened when you tried to move the load closer to the fulcrum? -What happened when you moved the fulcrum closer to the load?

make your own ski slope

. Go to page 33 in the book Explore Simple Machines in Epic (This book has been assigned to you.) 2. Get the need materials from the counter by the sink. 3. Follow directions on page 33 in your book. 4. Answer the following questions in your Science Journal: -How many books did it take to make the skier move at its fatest? -Why were there different times?

Save Rapunzel!

*This activity must be done in a group of 3-4 people*1. With your group, read pages 1-7 in the book Making a Pulley System for Rapunzel to find out what has happened to the princess. 2.. Read pages 9-15 to learn how to save her. 3. Gather your materials from the counter by the sink. 4. Follow directions on the previous pages to complete the experiment.

Solve This with National Geographic

1. Go to National Geographic in the References Databases section in ClassLink. 2. Search "Make This" 3. Click on the magazine and read pages 27 and 28. 3. Choose one of the four scenarios. 4. Design a model for solving the problem and draw a diagram of it. Be sure to label the parts. 5. Write a paragraph describing how your machine works and how it solves the problem described in the article.

Wheel and Axle Experiment

1. Read about a wheel and axle in Pebble Go. 2. Complete the Pebble Go Wheel and Axle Experiement to test whether wheel and axles make it easier to move things. 3. Directions and materials are on the counter by the sink. 4. Follow the directions to complete the experiement. 5. In your Science Journal, make a claim.: Do wheel and axles make it easier to move things? Use the results from teh experiement to support your claim.

Which wedge cuts best?

1. Go to Epic! and click on the book, Simple Machines: Wedges (This book has been assigned to you.) 2. Read page 21. 3. Come see me at the back table to do the experiment. 4. Make a hypothesis: Which wedge will cut best? 5. Test your hypotheses. 6. Reflect: Was your hypothesis correct? Write a paragraph about your findings.

Screw Experiment

1. Read about a screw in Pebble Go. Complete the Pebble Go Screw Experiement to test which screw will take the fewest turns to move the card. 3. Directions and materials are on the counter by the sink. 4. Follow the directions to complete the experiement. 5. In your Science Journal, make a claim.: Do cetain screws require fewer turns to move an object straight up ? Use the results from teh experiement to support your claim.