All rights reserved. Simple Machines Ideas and Resources Rather than a traditional lesson plan, this page is a collection of ideas and resources to bring the topic of simple machines alive for our students. If you have additional ideas or suggestions, please send them along. The roof leaks, the refrigerator is broken, it needs paint, etc. To fix the home, the students will need to use tools.
Many tools are simple machines.
A screwdriver, for example, is a lever, as is a refrigerator dolly. The dolly might be wheeled up a ramp, which is an inclined plane. A pulley might be used to raise roofing shingles to the roof. Students are to pick five tasks they are going to do, and describe how they will do the task, including the tools they will use. Students must describe five different simple machines they will use, and explain how these machines work.