Simple Machines

Simple Machines Scavenger Hunt

Use your Internet searching skills to answer the following questions and learn about simple machines and how we use them to make every day life easier.

1. What is a simple machine? List the six simple machines we can use.

http://store.intellaliftparts.com/an-overview-of-simple-machines.html (Thanks Robert and Jerry!)

http://www.mikids.com/Smachines.htm

2. Do simple machines change the amount of work done?

http://pm.appstate.edu/~goodmanj/4401/notes/machines/machines.html

3. What is another name for an inclined plane?

http://teacher.scholastic.com/dirtrep/simple/plane.htm

4. What does a wedge help you to do? List 3 examples of a wedge.

http://teacher.scholastic.com/dirtrep/simple/wedge.htm

5. What do screws help you to do?

http://teacher.scholastic.com/dirtrep/simple/screw.htm

http://sln.fi.edu/qa97/spotlight3/spotlight3.html

6. What is the point at which the lever moved called?

http://teacher.scholastic.com/dirtrep/simple/lever.htm

7. Describe the two ways in which a wheel and axle can be used?

http://teacher.scholastic.com/dirtrep/simple/wheel.htm

8. Why does a pulley make work seem easier?

http://teacher.scholastic.com/dirtrep/simple/pulley.htm

9. What happens when you pull one side of a pulley?

• Pulley Basics

Pulleys

10. What is the difference between a simple machine and a compound machine?

http://pm.appstate.edu/~goodmanj/4401/notes/machines/compoundmachines.html

http://sln.fi.edu/qa97/spotlight3/spotlight3.html

Now test your Simple Machine knowledge. Which of these objects are simple machines, which are not.

http://staff.harrisonburg.k12.va.us/%7Emwampole/1-resources/simple-machines/index.html

Now see if you can identify each type of simple machine.

http://www.mos.org/sln/Leonardo/GadgetAnatomy.html

http://pbskids.org/zoom/games/goldburgertogo/

Now try to picture your life without simple machines!

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