Simple Machines Packet Update (New Pages Added)

This week, I spent some time updating our Simple Machines Packet. I wanted to let you know that I added several new pages.

I created a couple of new pages with simple machines you might find at a construction site.  There is a blank page for the kids to label and of course there are answer pages to accompany these. 🙂

simple machines at a construction site worksheets

Simple Machines Interactive Notebook Activity

This Simple Machines Interactive Notebook activity covers all 6 types of simple machines (levers, inclined plane, wedge, pulley, screw, wheel and axle).  It also reviews the three classes of levers.  It might be a really good way to wrap up (or review) this material! You will find it on pages 49-54 of the Simple Machines Packet.

Simple Machines Interactive Notebook ActivitySimple Machines - Levers Inclined plane wedge pulley screw wheel and axle

Simple Machines Booklet: This is a booklet all about the six types of simple machines: lever, wheel and axle, inclined plane, wedge, pulley and screw. It also covers the three classes of levers.

Kids can trace the key words and color in the pictures. The booklet is 14 half-pages. (Directions on how to put the booklet together are provided.)

Simple Machines Booklet - Simple Machines Unit

There is also a resource page about the six types of simple machines which you can use to introduce the topic to your kids. You can either read that page aloud or you can have the kids use the worksheet that accompanies it to fill in the missing words. (It depends on the age and writing ability of your kids.)

We incorporated a lot of hands-on activities into this unit! My kids loved these!! Photos and instructions are included in our Simple Machines Packet.

Simple Machines Hands-On Activities

If you want to know more about what is included in our Simple Machines Packet, visit this post, scroll down below, or check out the Simple Machines Packet Quick Preview.  It has more details and lots of pictures to describe what is included. It is now well over 30 pages.

We did this unit when my youngest was in preschool and my older two were in early elementary. (We do our units together, so you’ll find some pages that have tracing and others that require the kids to write. Use whichever suits your family best!)

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The Simple Machines Unit is now over 50+ pages. It includes notebook pages & worksheets, the interactive notebook activity, simple machines booklet and hands-on activity ideas (with photos).

Simple Machines Packet Quick Preview

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Simple Machines Unit - Worksheets Lapbook ActivitiesWe spent quite a bit of time on the three classes of levers and did lots of hands-on activities about levers. You will find links to some of our other hands-on activities below.

Levers

Simple-Machine-Worksheets

Sorting Activity:SimpleMachinesSortingActivity

As I said above, when we did this unit, my youngest was in preschool and my older two were in early elementary.  We had so much fun with all the hands-on activities that go along with it! I’ll link to some of the hands-on activities we did. (Descriptions of our hands-on activities are included on pages 38 to 42 of the packet, as well.)

Update! My youngest has just done this unit again.  I created a new activity for her and added a new Simple Machines Booklet to this packet. This is a booklet all about the six types of simple machines: lever, wheel and axle, inclined plane, wedge, pulley and screw. It also covers the three classes of levers.

Kids can trace the key words and color in the pictures. The booklet is 14 half-pages. (Directions on how to put the booklet together are provided.)

Simple Machines Booklet

Hands-On Activities from Our Simple Machines Unit:

Some of the books we used for this unit:

The first book we read was How Do You Lift a Lion? (Affiliate link) It was a great way to introduce several of the simple machines (lever, wheel and axle, pulley)

We read about levers first from a science book and also read Scoop, Seesaw, and Raise: A Book About Levers  (Affiliate Link) 

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We read the book, Archimedes and the Door of Science along with this unit. What a terrific book and what a remarkable man Archimedes was!  The book talks about the Archimedes screw as well as lots of other topics — astronomy, math, geometry and more. We loved the imagery of Archimedes pulling a massive ship with pulleys and of course the description of the irrigation screw. I highly recommend this book, but it’s probably better suited to older elementary (grades 3-6).

The Archimedes screw was a machines used to transfer water to irrigation ditches.

It traditionally looks like this…

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So that’s it for today. I just wanted to be sure to pass the word along about this update.

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