Wheels & Levers
Wheels and Levers (4.6) Lessons and Projects
Wheels and Levers (4.6) Lessons and Projects
Demonstrate a practical understanding of wheels, gears and levers by constructing devices in which energy is transferred to produce motion. 4.6
Demonstrate a practical understanding of wheels, gears and levers by constructing devices in which energy is transferred to produce motion. 4.6
Students will create a levers word cloud to manipulate the unit vocabulary.
Levers Vocabulary Word ArtWord Art InstructionsTweet It: Wheels and Levers
Tweet it: Student ExampleTwitter TemplateTweet It: Wheels and Levers
Tweet It: Wheels and Levers
4.6.1, 4.6.2, 4.6.9
4.6.1, 4.6.2, 4.6.9
Students use Google Slides to create tweets to demonstrate a practical understanding of wheels, gears and levers.
Students will sort levers into their proper categories with this Drawing. 4.6.8, 4.6.9:
Students will sort levers into their proper categories with this Drawing. 4.6.8, 4.6.9:
Use the mnemonic if students have trouble remembering.
Building a Pop Can Catapult
SpoonCatapaultInstructions.pdfSpoon Catapult
Building a PopCan Catapault: 4.6.9
Building a PopCan Catapault: 4.6.9
Instructions for creating catapults.
Wheels and Levers Templates
Wheels and Levers Templates
Links
Links
- PowerKnowledge: Levers Powerknowledge has 9 sections on levers. Videos, web links, games, listen feature, and a list of science experiments are included.
- PowerKnowledge: Simple Machines Powerknowledge has 11 sections on simple machines.
- Students Click HERE for a Kahoot Game on Simple Machines made by Mrs. McClements. Teachers Click HERE to begin the review game.
- All About Simple Machines
- Dirtmeister's Science Reporters: Simple Machines
- Beacon Learning Centre- Click the pictures to learn more about simple machines.