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Content matching: Simple Machines

Develop a robot arm using common materials. Students will explore design, construction, teamwork, and materials selection and use.
Clipper Creations In this lesson students learn about simple machines. Students design and build a working model of a nail clipper. Explore the basic principles of engineering...
Lesson focuses on how engineers improve assistive devices such as a cane to meet the needs of the elderly. Students work in teams to re-engineer a cane for a "client."...
Lesson focuses on how writing instruments have been engineered over time. Students work in teams to design and build a functional "pen" out of everyday materials that can deliver washable...
Lesson focuses on how anemometers are engineered to measure the speed of wind, and how designs have changed over time. Student teams design and build a working anemometer out of...
Lesson focuses on how pendulums have been used to measure time and how mechanical mechanism pendulum clocks operate. Students work in teams to develop a pendulum out of everyday objects...