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School Year:

2024-2025

Students should be collaboratively planning an investigation to demonstrate the direction of the forces acting on a lever, pulley, and inclined plane as they relate to net forces; design a model labeling identified forces.
Students should be differentiating and classifying the six types of simple machines (i.e., lever, inclined plane, wedge, wheel and axle, screw, and pulley) found in school and household items.
Students should be explaining how humans use machines to make work easier.
Students should be explaining how simple machines work together to form a compound machine.
Students should be identifying a common task that might be easier if done with a simple machine; collaboratively designing and building an apparatus that incorporates simple machines to accomplish the task, and explain how the apparatus works and the
Students should be identifying compound machines and the simple machines that comprise them within the school and household environment.
Students should be planning and conducting an experiment that compares the relative force required to move an object with and without the aid of a simple machine.

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