Description
- Overview:
- In this lesson, students learn about work as defined by physical science and see that work is made easier through the use of simple machines. Already encountering simple machines everyday, students will be alerted to their widespread uses in everyday life. This lesson serves as the starting point for the Simple Machines Unit.
- Subject:
- Engineering, Physics
- Level:
- Middle School, High School
- Grades:
- Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan
- Author:
- Glen Sirakavit, Janet Yowell, Malinda Schaefer Zarske, Melissa Straten, Michael Bendewald
- Provider:
- TeachEngineering
- Provider Set:
- TeachEngineering
- Date Added:
- 09/18/2014
- License:
- Educational Use Permitted
- Language:
- English
- Media Format:
- Graphics/Photos, Text/HTML
on Oct 29, 05:57am Evaluation
Quality of Assessments: Limited (1)
I like the idea of the assessment with the different engineering fields, but it does not seem to relate to the simple machines very much.